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Verse 34Trial is a means for polishing the soul and getting nigh to Allah. It is understood from this verse that Solomon’s trial had been through a soulless body which was on his throne before his eyes, the thing which he did not expect, and he hoped for something other than it. The Qur’an has delivered no more explanation on this matter.
However, it is narrated in traditions that Solomon desired to have some brave and fruitful children who could help him in running the country and specially in struggling against the enemy, but since he did not say the holy phrase: ‘If Allah wills’, the same sentence which shows the man’s reliance on Allah in all circumstances, at that time, he got no child from his wives except a handicapped child like a soulless body that was brought and put on his throne.
Solomon thought very much and became inconvenient that why he neglected Allah for a moment and relied on his own power.
Then he repented and returned to Allah.
Verse 40“And verily for him unto Us is a nearness and an excellent resort.”
This sentence, in fact, is an answer to those who, following to what is mentioned in the present Torah, polluted the sacred realm of this great prophet by kinds of undue and superstitious attributes. And, thus, it counts him free from all these wrong accusations, and honours his position with Allah, especially with the holy phrase: ‘an excellent resort’.
A tradition from the holy Prophet (S) indicates he said:
“Have you heard that how much of property and government Allah gave Solomon, the son of David? Yet, with all these merits, it did not increase in him (anything) except to his humility, in a manner that because of intense humility and discipline he did not look at the sky because of humility for his Lord.”
[Rauh-ul-Bayan, the commentary, Vol. 8, P. 39]
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