ما أغرب صوت سمعتَه في حياتك؟ في قصة اليوم رجلٌ كان إذا سبّح الله سبّحت الجبال معه، وجُمعت له الطير فردّدت وراءه. وكان مع ذلك كله يعمل بيده ويأكل ممّا تصنعه يداه.
بدأت قصة داود عليه السلام وهو فتى صغير في جيش طالوت، لا ينتظر منه أحد شيئًا. فقتل جالوت، ﴿وَآتَاهُ اللَّهُ الْمُلْكَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُ مِمَّا يَشَاءُ﴾. فصار نبيًّا وملكًا في وقت واحد، وهذا لم يجتمع لكثير من الناس. وأنزل الله عليه الزَّبور، وكان من أحسن الناس صوتًا بالقراءة.
وآتاه الله أشياء عجيبة. أوّلها صوته: ﴿إِنَّا سَخَّرْنَا الْجِبَالَ مَعَهُ يُسَبِّحْنَ بِالْعَشِيِّ وَالْإِشْرَاقِ * وَالطَّيْرَ مَحْشُورَةً كُلٌّ لَّهُ أَوَّابٌ﴾. وثانيها: ﴿وَأَلَنَّا لَهُ الْحَدِيدَ﴾ — لان الحديد في يده كما يلين الطين في يدك، وقال له: ﴿أَنِ اعْمَلْ سَابِغَاتٍ وَقَدِّرْ فِي السَّرْدِ﴾ — أي اصنع الدروع الواسعة وأحكِم نسجها حلقةً حلقة. وثالثها الحكمة وفصل الخطاب، أي أن يقضي بين الناس فيصيب.
والآن السؤال الذي تدور عليه القصة: رجلٌ في يده مُلك، ويوحى إليه، والحديد يلين بين أصابعه — فلماذا يتعب نفسه في صناعة الدروع أصلًا؟ الجواب في حديث النبي ﷺ: «ما أكل أحدٌ طعامًا قطّ خيرًا من أن يأكل من عمل يده، وإنّ نبيّ الله داود عليه السلام كان يأكل من عمل يده». ملَك الأرض، وأكل ممّا صنعته يداه. وهذه هي القصة كلها في سطر.
وكان مع ذلك كثير العبادة على أحسن وجه. قال النبي ﷺ: «أحبّ الصلاة إلى الله صلاة داود، وأحبّ الصيام إلى الله صيام داود؛ كان ينام نصف الليل ويقوم ثلثه وينام سدسه، وكان يصوم يومًا ويفطر يومًا». وقال الله عنه: ﴿وَاذْكُرْ عَبْدَنَا دَاوُودَ ذَا الْأَيْدِ إِنَّهُ أَوَّابٌ﴾ — ذا الأيد، أي صاحب القوّة. وكانت قوّته في عبادته وفي عمله جميعًا، لا في جيشه.
يقول الله تعالى يصف معجزاته: {يَا جِبَالُ أَوِّبِي مَعَهُ وَالطَّيْرَ ۖ وَأَلَنَّا لَهُ الْحَدِيدَ}. (أوِّبي معه يعني سبِّحي معه).
أطيب ما تأكله ما عملته يدك، ولو كانت الدنيا كلها في يدك.
كان داود يستطيع أن يأخذ ما شاء من بيت المال، فاختار أن يصنع بيده ويأكل من صنعه. لماذا في رأيك؟ وما الفرق بين شيء تأخذه وشيء تصنعه أنت؟
اصنع اليوم شيئًا بيدك — ولو كان صغيرًا — ثم استعمله أنت أو أعطه لأحد.
القرآن الكريم، البقرة: 251 وص: 17-26 والأنبياء: 79-80 وسبأ: 10-11
الملك والزبور وتسبيح الجبال والطير وإلانة الحديد، كله بنص الآيات.
What is the strangest sound you have ever heard? In today's story there was a man whose praise of Allah was joined by the mountains, and the birds were gathered to repeat after him. And through all of that he worked with his hands and ate from what his hands made.
Dawud's story began when he was a young man in Talut's army, with nobody expecting anything of him. He killed Jalut, {and Allah gave him the kingship and wisdom and taught him from that which He willed.} He became a prophet and a king at the same time, which few people have ever combined. Allah revealed the Zabur to him, and his voice in reciting it was among the most beautiful of any man's.
Allah gave him remarkable things. First, his voice: {Indeed, We subjected the mountains to exalt Allah with him in the evening and after sunrise, and the birds, gathered, all with him repeating praises.} Second: {And We made pliable for him iron} — iron softened in his hand the way clay softens in yours — and He told him: {Make full coats of mail and calculate precisely the links.} Third, wisdom and decisive speech: the ability to judge between people and get it right.
Now the question the story turns on: a man with a kingdom in his hand, receiving revelation, with iron softening between his fingers — why would he tire himself making coats of mail at all? The answer is in the Prophet's words: "No one has ever eaten better food than what he eats from the work of his own hands, and the prophet of Allah Dawud used to eat from the work of his hands." He ruled the land, and ate from what his own hands made. That is the whole story in one line.
And with all that, he worshipped in the finest way. The Prophet said: "The most beloved prayer to Allah is the prayer of Dawud, and the most beloved fasting to Allah is the fasting of Dawud. He would sleep half the night, stand a third of it, and sleep a sixth; and he would fast one day and not the next." Allah said of him: {And remember Our servant Dawud, a man of strength; indeed, he was one repeatedly turning back to Allah.} A man of strength — and his strength was in his worship and his work together, not in his army.
The best food you eat is what your own hands made, even if the whole world is in your hands.
Dawud could have taken whatever he wished from the treasury, and chose instead to make things and eat from what he made. Why do you think that was? What is the difference between something you take and something you make?
Make one thing with your hands today — however small — and then use it yourself or give it to someone.
The Quran, Al-Baqarah: 251, Sad: 17-26, Al-Anbiya: 79-80, Saba: 10-11
The kingship, the Zabur, the mountains and birds glorifying with him, and the softening of iron are all in the verses.