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The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: The A...

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This is Islamic religious commentary (tafsir-style prose) on the Prophet David (Dawud), drawing extensively on Quranic verses and hadith traditions to expound his miraculous gifts and spiritual stature. The text's central argument is that David's powers — the ability to soften iron bare-handed, a voice that compelled birds and beasts to join his psalms involuntarily, and the gift of "decisive speech" — were divine miracles attesting to his prophethood, not merely natural talents. A substantial portion narrates a controversial divine judgment, in which David ordered a complainant killed as blood-revenge for his own secret crime, vindicated only when the murder victim speaks from the grave to the assembled Israelites. The author draws a careful theological distinction between prophecy (receiving divine commands) and wisdom (a separate, unteachable gift from God), arguing David uniquely held both. Notably, the author inserts a parenthetical self-correction disputing their own source, flagging that a quoted speech attributed to David actually belongs to Solomon in the Quran — an unusual moment of critical transparency within a devotional text. The work also explicitly dismisses Jewish and Christian traditions about David as incompatible with the Islamic doctrine of prophetic infallibility.

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