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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the one who says the hoopoe is more knowledgeable about reality than the Prophet of Allah, Sulayman

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I was listening to a person who was talking about the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, in the story of the Prophet of Allah, Sulayman, and His saying about the hoopoe
and I have come to you from Sheba with certain news.وَجِئْتُكَ مِن سَبَإٍ بِنَبَإٍ يَقِينٍ
[An-Naml 27:22]
. He said that the hoopoe knew politics and understood reality better than the Prophet of Allah, Sulayman. Does this statement count as belittling the noble Prophet Sulayman (peace be upon him)?

Answer:
Yes, this is not permissible. This statement means that it is more intelligent than Sulayman. But if he said that it saw what Sulayman did not see, Sulayman is a human being, and there is no doubt that he does not see everything. The hoopoe has the ability and it flew to the land of Yemen and saw something that Sulayman did not see. And it did not say, "I am more knowledgeable than you" or "I know more than you." Rather,
and said, "I have encompassed [in knowledge] that which you have not encompassedفَقَالَ أَحَطتُ بِمَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِ
[An-Naml 27:22]
means, "I have seen something that you have not seen." Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [137] حكم من قال الهدهد أفقه بالواقع من نبي الله سليمان - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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