THE GREAT TRIAL VERSES NO.21-25

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DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (2 SAMUEL 11) Verses 21-25

      In the above passage a story of David's judgement is narrated which has raised up a hot dispute among commentators. The story in brief is as follows:-

      Once David retired from his daily work, to perform his prayer when two men invaded his privacy by climing a wall and reaching the sanctuary.

      David was frightened by their appearance, but soon they said:- ``Don't be afraid. We are two complainant brothers who have come to you to judge between us, for; one of us has wronged another. We have come to seek your justice as our king. He continued his complain thus:- This brother of mine has a flock of ninety nine female sheep, and I have only one. He has compelled me to hand over my ewe to him to keep it in his flock, and has also been harsh to me in speech. What can I do now?''

      At first David was so occupied by his kingly pride that he did not apprehend the note to make a nice distinction. He took the complain literally and said:- ``Verily your brother has been unjust to you by asking to add your ewe to his ewes, and most of the partners in the business transgress the rights of the other parties. The exceptionals here are the righteous men who are very few.''

      When David issued his decree, the brothers disappeared suddenly, and as mysteriously as they had come! David came to himself and knew that Allah had put him under a test! He made sure that what he saw, it was a vision. So, once again he trembled with a fear and was filled with an ewe of his Lord. He therefore bowed down and prostrated himself before God, and in a state of penitence, he begged his Lord to pardon him.

      God accepted his repentance and forgave him, and by His Grace and Mercy promoted him spiritually as well as physically and extended his kingdom widely.

      In the above mentioned hot dispute, that was among the expounders of Qurän, reference is mainly to two points in this story:- 1) That David realized that God had him tested and tried. 2) And that he asked his Lord to forgive him by bowing down in penitence.

      The trial might have been for a little mistake that David might have done in his former judgements that our Lord intended to warn his apostle, so as to be more careful in his future judgements.

      The root of the unjust comments about the above story is found in some superstitious incidents and forgeries that have been narrated in the Bible about David, who indeed was an innocent, guiltless, and infallible prophet of God. As an instance, let us have a look in one of these stories that has been forged by the writers of the BIBLE, in the 2 SAMUEL 11:2ِ27:-

 

 

 

DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (2 SAMUEL 11) Verses 21-25
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