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  Sulayman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A well known story of Sulayman involves his interactions with the Queen of Sheba or Bilqis.
Bilqis was a wise ruler, but her people worshipped the sun and moon.
Bilqis was so overwhelmed by the wisdom and power of Sulayman that she would eventually marry him and become his wife.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sulayman   (314 words)

  
 India: Justice, the victim - Gujarat state fails to protect women from violence
Bilqis Yakoob Rasool from Randhikpur village, Dahod district who was five months pregnant when a violent Hindu mob caught up with her and her family was violently gang-raped and made to watch as her three-year old daughter was killed.
Bilqis subsequently clarified that she had indeed named the three men who had raped her, all of whom were known to her, when she first reported the incident to police on 4 March 2002 but that police had claimed that these were ""respectable persons"" and refused to name them in the FIR.
Although Bilqis was then still at Limkheda police station, she was not taken to the scene of the crime to identify the bodies but the police took another person there instead on 4 March who identified all the seven bodies since they were his relatives.
www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=7865211F2A98559280256F73005539BF   (17778 words)

  
 The World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bilqis is a deputy principle of a girls' school here in the northern city of Taloqan.
Bilqis said she's running for parlament because she wants to do something about the problem of illiteracy, especially among girls.
Bilqis said her family is supportive, but many conservative religious figures and local warlords oppose the idea of women in government.
www.theworld.org /worldfeature/afghan/03.shtml   (895 words)

  
 fusus16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bilqis said,1 "It (the letter) is from Sulayman and it says 'In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, Most Merciful.'" Some people criticise the fact that the name of Sulayman comes before the name of Allah.
Part of the wisdom of Bilqis and the sublimity of her knowledge lies in the fact that she did not mention who cast the letter to her.
When Bilqis saw it, she thought that it was water and had depth, so she bared her legs so as not to let the water dampen her clothes.
bewley.virtualave.net /fusus16.html   (3569 words)

  
 Islamic Web Site of Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bilqis reacts to the letter by telling her advisors she has received a ‘noble’ letter from King Solomon, reading it to them, and then asking them what she should do.
By relegating the decision to Bilqis, her advisors show their confidence in her wisdom and willingness to submit to her decision-making: “They said: We have great strength, and great ability for war, but it is for you to command: so think over what you will command” [27:33].
Bilqis realized that she was in the company of a very knowledgeable person who was not only a ruler of a great kingdom but a messenger of God as well.
www.bangla2000.com /Islam/essay04.shtm   (8257 words)

  
 India: Justice, the victim - Gujarat state fails to protect women from violence - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bilqis Yakoob Rasool, five months pregnant and fleeing violence in her home village, was gang-raped on 3 March 2002 when a Hindu mob caught up with the family near the town Limkheda.
In the case of Bilqis Yakoob Rasool, 14 of whose relatives had been killed, police registered only seven as dead on her complaint claiming that the other bodies were not found and were hence “"missing”".
Bilqis Yakoob Rasool (whose case is described above), deeply traumatized after being subjected to gang rape and witnessing the killing of 14 members of her family, including her small daughter, described in detail what happened to her after the rape and how police refused to register her complaint of rape:
web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa200012005   (16698 words)

  
 Amid ghosts of her dead, Bilqis gives birth to a girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
About the same time as a CBI team was digging up human remains which may finally lift the veil off the rape and massacre of her family during the Gujarat riots, she delivered a baby girl at a hospital in the place where it all started, Godhra.
Bilqis had lost 14 members of her family—including her three-year-old daughter, mother, brother and two sisters—in the Randhikpur massacre.
Bilqis was five months pregnant at the time, and later delivered a girl.
www.indianexpress.com /full_story.php?content_id=40351   (396 words)

  
 Chapter One
Bilqis, after being shot at for a second time readies her shortbow ready to fire toward the elves at any oppurtuinity.
Bilqis releases her arrow toward the elven creature, it whizzes harmlessly past Jaer's ear, close enough to move his hair.
Bilqis also notices a small symbol on each corner of the box, the symbol she does not recongnize, but feels it is important, somehow.
www.crimson.5u.com /chapt1.htm   (6386 words)

  
 Background Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Mahram Bilqis is near the town of Marib in northern Yemen, along the ancient caravan routes that ran along the edge of the Arabian Desert.
In order to determine the areas of greatest potential interest, the location of features interpreted from the GPR were mapped and then classified according to their geophysical signature.
Oblique aerial photograph of Mahram Bilqis taken in 1999 showing the monumental pillars and the partially buried ovoid-shaped enclosure wall.
www.cssd.ab.ca /schools/olp/sheba/background_information.htm   (828 words)

  
 Yemen Times Article Print Page
The throne is known for its five pillars and the sixth one is broken.
According to historical sources, the Bilqis Tempe is situated to the southwest of the old city of Mareb.
The team affiliate to the American establishment for human study believes that Balqis Mahram is an astonishing discovery man has not seen for thousands of years and would be the eight wonder as the date of its building dates back to 12th century BC.
www.yementimes.com /print_article.shtml?i=832&p=culture&a=1   (473 words)

  
 Greetings Card Campaign 2004: Asia & Pacific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bilqis Yakoob Rasool was five months pregnant when a Hindu mob caught her family as they fled the violence in their home village on 3 March 2002.
Bilqis reported it all to police, but the case was closed in January 2003.
Bilqis continued to pursue justice for herself and her family.
www.amnesty.org.uk /gcc/2004/asiapacific/index.shtml   (1883 words)

  
 Gujarat Authorities Fail Muslim Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bilqis Yaqoob Rasool fled Randhikpur village in Gujarat, India, when it was attacked by right-wing Hindus on 28 February 2002.
Bilqis saw an attacker kill her three-year-old daughter with a rock.
The Supreme Court of India ordered that the case against those accused of raping and killing Bilqis’ family be investigated by a central police agency which found that Gujarat police had sided with the offenders and closed the case, claiming that the culprits could not be found.
asiapacific.amnesty.org /apro/APROweb.nsf/pages/svaw_gujaratMuslimWomen   (543 words)

  
 Bilqis case: 13 in judicial custody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 13 accused would be produced before the special fast-track court judge S M Padhyay on February 20 for the hearing of an application filed by CBI seeking permission to conduct scientific tests on them including the lie-detector test, truth serum test as also conducting their identification parade.
The Bilqis case was reopened by the CBI in January at the behest of SC after Gujarat police had closed the case citing lack of evidence.
Bilqis Bano, the crucial witness of the case, alleged that 14 members of her family were trapped near Chapparwad and were hacked to death by a mob of around 500 people during post-Godhra communal flare up.
cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=76287   (259 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
Bilqis, like all brands, is a floating signifier, ready to settle terms for whatever product placement the market has in mind.
Bilqis squirmed into my nostrils after I had filtered out the competing odours of donkey turds and fried fish: I was standing at a stall that sold myrrh and frankincense.
Bilqis means a being half-human and half-spirit; Solomon mistrusted the queen as a sorceress, and some of the legends made her revert to demonism by giving her bestially hairy legs and the hooves of a goat.
www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4421501,00.html   (2045 words)

  
 joel donnet News 111
For, in the Ancient times, Mahram Bilqis was a high place of pilgrimage, so sacred that people came there from very far away to pray -and even to be buried, as is attested by funerary inscriptions in the necropolis that bear names of families and tribes of the deceased.
If the Queen of Sheba -Bilqis or another one, and even maybe a princess -as Holy scriptures are usually not of tremendous historical precision- actually existed, she necessarily came to Marib, and therefore took part in ceremonies in its biggest sanctuary.
Arab folklore calls this queen Bilqis while, in the Ethiopian folklore, Makeda (which means Greatness) came back from Jerusalem pregnant and gave birth to Salomon's son, Menelik, the mythical founder of the Ethiopian dynasty that lasted up to the last Negus, Haile Selassie, who died in 1975.
perso.wanadoo.fr /joel.donnet/News115.htm   (4957 words)

  
 Imam Ali Foundation - London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Queen Bilqis knew that an ordinary king would be greedy for power and try to take over her land.
When Bilqis heard of the grand kingdom of Ptaphet Suleiman (a.s), she realised that he was a prophet of Allah (S.W.T) who had been granted such great powers by Him.
Queen Bilqis was a clever woman and as soon as she heard this, she realised the lesson he was trying to teach her.
www.najaf.org /english/child/short.asp?a=10   (784 words)

  
 rabble news
At their last detention review, the Montreal IRB decided to continue the detention of Bilqis Fatima and Imran Hussain on the grounds that Bilqis — who uses a wheelchair — and her son were a flight risk.
At their last detention review, the Montreal IRB decided to continue the detention of Bilqis Fatima and Imran Hussain on the grounds that Bilqis — who uses a wheelchair — and her son were a flight risk, and that anyway, their removal to the U.S. was scheduled to take place any minute.
Back in the Laval detention centre, Bilqis Fatima’s feet are swollen and bleeding, a side effect of her advanced diabetes.
www.rabble.ca /news_full_story.shtml?x=24835   (745 words)

  
 QUEST FOR A QUEEN
Stones from the Mahram Bilqis temple collected by the AFSM archaeologists for documentation and possible reconstruction of the sanctuary.
If the Queen of Sheba or Bilqis existed, she would certainly have come to Marib and participated in ceremonies at Mahram Bilqis, the biggest temple and an important centre of pilgrimage of the time.
It is difficult to date the origins of the Sabean kingdom, where an agricultural community lived perhaps as early as the 3rd millennium B.C. Southern Arabia apparently went through a major change between 1500 and 1200 B.C. when the farming communities grouped themselves into small confederations under the leadership of mukkaribs (confederators).
www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1903/19030660.htm   (1750 words)

  
 AFSM: Timelines
Yada'il Dharih bin Sumhu'all, mukarrib ("confederator") of Sheba, constructs an early portion of the Mahram Bilqis sanctuary wall.
W portion of the wall of the Mahram Bilqis is built up by prominent officials in Saba.
NW entrance of the Mahram Bilqis becomes reduced in size, and the Peristyle Hall is first in use.
www.afsm.org /past/timeline_ancient.htm   (188 words)

  
 GN Online: Christian woman says she found solace in Islam
Bilqis said Muslims in America are trying hard to protect the image of Islam.
Bilqis was working in the U.S. as director of sales in a well-known publishing firm and came to the UAE three years ago.
Bilqis quizzed her father on their faith, and he would tell her just to believe what she was told without doubting.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=34306   (868 words)

  
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Five days passed before Bilqis discovered that there was no space available on the next flight.
The trial court concluded as a matter of law that both Saadeh and Bilqis were acting as agents of Kuwait Airways; that Harby had fully complied with the conditions of his ticket; and that Kuwait Airways breached its agreement with Harby, causing him to suffer expenses and damages as a result of the airline's breach.
We therefore must disregard the trial court's finding that Saadeh and Bilqis were the airline's agents because the finding is not supported by the evidence.
www.mcbreensenior.com /kuwaitairwaystariffs   (1687 words)

  
 A2Youth - About Islam - Articles - Stories of The Prophets
The envoys of Bilqis, entering amidst the well-equipped army, realized that their wealth was nothing in comparison to that of the kingdom of Solomon's palace floors, which were made of sandalwood and inlaid with gold.
When Bilqis arrived at Solomon's palace, she was welcomed with pomp and ceremony.
Bilqis realized that she was in the company of a very knowledgeable person who was not only a ruler of a great kingdom but a messenger of Allah, as well.
www.a2youth.com /islam/articles/prophets/prophets19-02.html   (867 words)

  
 Day 6 - Ma'rib to Sana'a
Bilqis is the Yemeni name for the Queen of Sheba who reigned in 10BC.
Mahram Bilqis, or the Temple of Bilqis, with man asleep below one of the pillars.
Apparently the pillars are half buried in the sand.
www.helga.com /collections/yemen/6.html   (793 words)

  
 INDOlink - India General News - Gujarat Gangrape: Bilqis Too Wants Trial Outside State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In her complain, the victim complained that the situation in the State was still hostile and she did not expect a fair trial in the case and requested the apex Court to transfer the case to any of the neighbouring States.
Bilqis, who had first approached the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into her rape by a mob during the riots, said the situation the State was not conducive for a trial in her case and also cited a CBI report in support of her contention.
The CBI report had castigated the local police for a shoddy job and cited that the killings that took place alongside the gangrape of Bilqis took place in a planned manner.
www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=070904083737   (609 words)

  
 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Arabic Bilqis, Ethiopian Makeda according to Jewish and Islamic traditions, ruler of the Kingdom of Saba' (or Sheba) in southwestern Arabia.
The story of Bilqis, as the Queen of Sheba is known in Islamic tradition, appears in the Qur'an, though she is not mentioned by name, and her story has been embellished by Muslim commentators; the Arabs have also given Bilqis a southern Arabian genealogy, and she is the subject of a widespread cycle of legends.
The king's demons, meanwhile, fearing that he might be tempted into marrying Bilqis, whispered to him that she had hairy legs and the hooves of an ass.
www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9067221   (363 words)

  
 3 Acid throwers get life term in Bogra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
But the parents of Bilqis got her married to Mizanur Rahman of the same village.
Angered by this both Abdur Razzak and Jaber Ali threw acid on Bilqis on August 19, 2002 while she was asleep.
They were first sent to Bogra Mohhamad Ali Hospital, but later Bilqis was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as her condition deteriorated.
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/8/3535/printer   (236 words)

  
 Bilqis: Key CBI officer transferred
Sources said Superintendent B.M. Jha, who has been unravelling the sequence of events leading to the massacre of Bilqisbano Yaqub Rasool’s relatives and her gangrape near Randhikpur during the post-Godhra violence, was transferred last week.
Bilqis had been five months pregnant at the time she was allegedly gang-raped, on March 3, 2002, as she and her family members fled the violence.
THE chief judicial magistrate (Ahmedabad rural) on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of the 13 accused in Bilqis gangrape and murder case.
cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=77873   (584 words)

  
 Viewzone - Jamme Interpretation of Sabaean Texts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Most of the artifacts were photographed by Jamme himself and were gathered under restrictive circumstances owing to the territorial disputes that still continue in Yemen.
In the artifacts that we reviewed from Bilqis, we noted ligatures for such words as "EL" (the Lord), "BN" (the Son), "BL" (life, love), "TseL" (protection), while these ligatures have been assigned the status of single letter sounds in the Ethiopian version.
Undoubtedly some of the material at Bilqis was produced in the last two millennia and utilize the Ethiopian variant.
www.viewzone.com /negev_Jamme.html   (1528 words)

  
 Bowers Museum - Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality...Treasures from The British Museum
This drawing depicts an important moment in the Koranic tradition (Sura 27:15-44), when the hoopoe delivers a letter from Solomon to the Queen of Sheba who is named in this literature as Bilqis (although she remains anonymous in the Koran).
In this drawing Bilqis reclines beside a stream, while gazing at the hoopoe that has just landed on the tree stump at the right, holding in its beak a rolled letter from its master, Solomon.
Bilqis is shown wearing a remarkable robe which incorporates representations of a hoopoe and other birds and animals, and thus perhaps an allusion to her own potential mastery of these species.
www.bowers.org /sheba/sheba_meeting_image2.html   (225 words)

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