Sulaiman عليه السلام asked for a kingdom that would belong to no one after him, and it was given.
For a child this is the most spectacular story in the series. The wind ran at his command. The jinn worked for him. He understood the speech of birds and animals — and the Qur'an records him smiling at an ant who warned her colony to get out of the way before his army arrived without noticing them.
Then the hoopoe who went missing and came back with news of a queen in Sheba who worshipped the sun, and everything that followed from it.
What Sits Underneath the Wonder
The wisdom he was famous for, and the judgment he gave as a young man that his own father had judged differently — and that Allah confirmed.
Told in rhyme, and the details children love are all here: the ant, the hoopoe, the throne, and the floor of glass the queen mistook for water.
How the Series Works
Simple full-color illustrations accompany rhyming poetry that is fun to read aloud and surprisingly easy to remember — which is the point. A child who has heard a story in verse a dozen times can recite parts of it back, and what he can recite he retains.
Each book carries an "Islamictionary": a simplified children's glossary explaining the Arabic and Islamic words as they appear. That single feature is why the books work in non-Arabic-speaking households, where a parent reading aloud otherwise has to stop and improvise a definition.
Hard, durable full-color pages with the picture on the left and the text on the right. Each book is 8 x 5 inches and three-quarters of an inch thick — built for the handling a favorite book gets.
The Rest of the Series
Fifteen titles, each on one Prophet, all in the same rhyming format:
The boxed set brings them together at a discount.