Solomon case

Wise Solomon’s and the Perplexing Case

Two neighbors who were single mothers went camping with their two children. The older woman had a 10 year old boy and the younger one had a 7 year old girl and a baby boy. The two women watched their children played happily “don't go too far" the younger woman shouted to warn the children.

While the two women got busy talking and preparing food and camping stuff. They did not notice that the children went deep in bushes, but when they recognized that they began to look for the children with great worrying of lost them.

Eventually after spending too much time searching, they only found one child and the other still missing. "Where is my son?" the elder woman asked the girl angrily. "I don't know" the girl answered.  "We were playing hide and seek and I never saw him since then" she added.  So, they keep looking for the other child sorrowfully.

For their dreadful they saw wolves went around with bloody mouth, they knew then that the wolves gone with the boy.

suddenly the elder woman hurried back to the camping place and held up the baby boy with a strange look in her eyes screaming "that's my boy" the younger lady astonished with that kind of reaction and tried gently to drag the baby from her firm grips but she failed, so she walked her home trying to observe any change in her attitude but nothing happened.

When they got back home the younger lady went to complain to the prophet David (PBUH). After he listened to the young lady he ordered his men to go and bring that elder lady. she came with the baby still in her arm and she told a very different story when he asked her about the baby "that woman tried to take away may baby boy" the elder woman cry out with trembling voice "and when I refuse to give it to her she said she will sue me, and she invented a strange tragedy about how the wolfs ate my baby boy" the elder woman added and burst into tears.

The prophet David (PBUH) looked over that case carefully and after while he truly believed that the elder woman is the mother, so he ordered that the living child be given to the elder lady, then they went back home.

The prophet Solomon the son of David knew about that case thus he sent for the two ladies and listen to their narration one more time. He said, "The one says, 'This is my son' and the other says, 'No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one'…

A silence fell over the judgment hall, and all eyes were fixed surprisingly on Solomon  when he spoke to one of his men ‘Bring me a knife so as to cut the child into two halves and divided it between them' .

The younger lady yearned with compassion while the other woman stood carelessly 'for the sake of God Don't do that, it is her (i.e. the other lady's) child. So Solomon answered and said “Give it to the younger lady, she is his mother”.