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King Solomon

In Our Time: Religion

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Judaism and Islam, a Collection of Fabulous Stories

In judaism and islam, you have a whole collection of fabulous stories. Solomon becomes not only the great ruler of israel, he becomes the ruler of all creatures. He can even command and control the devils. But every so often, for example, the ant humbles him by saying, where you may be the greatest, but i am the smallest, and actually i have humbled you. And this fits very well with islamic theology. The notion of a wise ruler was so fundamental to islam's own sense of its importance that solomon cannot have feet of clay.

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