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The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: Some of What Was Inspired to David (PUH) and Some of What Was Copied From His Sermons

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This text is an Islamic religious/hagiographic work that presents selected passages from the Psalms of David as transmitted through Islamic scholarship, alongside moral anecdotes attributed to Shia Imams. The core material consists of Quranic-tradition retellings of Psalm verses emphasizing divine judgment, the fleeting nature of worldly life, and eschatological warnings about hellfire and paradise — including vivid descriptions of paradise's pleasures awaiting the faithful. The author draws primarily from Ibn Tawoos's *Sa'd al-Su'ud* and notes that the Psalms' content aligns with other prophetic traditions, presenting them as consistent with Islamic theology rather than as foreign scripture. Three narrative anecdotes follow: David interceding to extend a young man's lifespan through an act of mercy, a woman of Aws being told she will be David's companion in paradise due to her radical acceptance of God's will, and Ali ibn Abi Talib expressing complete contentment with God's decrees even unto death. A distinctive theological claim runs throughout — that the highest spiritual station is total satisfaction (*rida*) with divine judgment, a level the text reserves for prophets, the Imams, and a very few elect believers, explicitly citing Ali as its exemplar. The work functions as devotional literature within a Shia Islamic framework, using David as a bridge figure whose wisdom foreshadows and validates Shia theological commitments.

The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: Some of What Was Inspired to David (PUH) and Some of What Was Copied From His Sermons

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