Surah Saad
Chapter 38 · Verse 32 · Revealed in Makkah
“And he said, "Indeed, I gave preference to the love of good [things] over the remembrance of my Lord until the sun disappeared into the curtain [of darkness]."”
Translation: Saheeh International
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Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Reflection — Ibn Kathir
Sulayman the Son of Dawud
Allah tells us that he gave Sulayman to Dawud as a Prophet, as He says elsewhere:
وَوَرِثَ سُلَيْمَـنُ دَاوُودَ
Reflection — Maarif ul Quran
The story of the return and resetting of the Sun
Some early interpreters have, while following the first Tafsir, also said that soon after having missed the Salah of al-` Asr, Sayyidna Sulayman (علیہ السلام) prayed to Allah Ta’ ala, or requested the angels, that the Sun should be made to return. Accordingly, the Sun was returned and he was enabled to perform his appointed Salah. After that, the Sun set once again. These people take the pronoun in: رُدُّوهَا (rudduha: Bring it back to me - 38:33) as reverting to the Sun.
What does this verse bring up for you today?