QASAS-UN-NABIYEEN, VOLUME 4, STORY OF DAWOOD AND SULEMAN PEACE OF UPON BOTH OF THEM. CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 13

و أَسلَمتُ مع سليمان لِله رب العالمين

And I submit with Suleman to Allah the Lord of the worlds

VOCABULARY

despite	رغم	She got involved	تَوَرطَت
Obscene, atrocious	فاحش	smartness	دهاء
She plunges, dives, wades into water	تَخُوض	glistening	رقراق
Castle, palace	صرح	He informed	نَبه
glass	قوارير	Made smooth	مُمرد
		She initiated, started	اِبتَدرَت

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONC

And this is how it was. Despite her smartness and intelligence, the queen fell into this atrocious mistake. She mistook the glass to be glistening water that was flowing and waving. She uncovered her shins and intended to wade through it. There the prophet of Allah, Suleman peace be upon him, informed her of her mistake and said that this was a palace (whose floor) was made smooth with glass. The covering over her eyes was lifted and she recognized her ignorance in only looking at the apparent phenomenon rather than the underlying cause, and her mistake of worshipping the sun and prostrating before it. She started saying: “O my Lord, I have indeed transgressed myself and I submit, with Suleman, to Allah the Lord of the worlds.