Do Quranic Stories Sound Like Fairy Tales?
Speaking of strange phenomenons!
According to some verses, it seems like a possibility that contacting their realm is possible but this is not domain of religion whether we can contact jinns or not, or how to contact them. For that, you need to refer to the people /experts of this field who claim to have done so. Secondly, according to my knowledge, no where has this been mentioned that Solomon (AS) or his men used to move through air. What’s been mentioned is this fact that air was made subservient to him which refers to the flow of air which then could be used to optimize other operations that are dependent on Air flow. The most prominent verse in this regard is the following: وَلِسُلَيْمَانَ الرِّيحَ غُدُوُّهَا شَهْرٌ وَّرَوَاحُهَا شَهْرٌ وَأَسَلْنَا لَهُ عَيْنَ الْقِطْرِ وَمِنَ الْجِنِّ مَنْ يَّعْمَلُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِ وَمَنْ يَّزِغْ مِنْهُمْ عَنْ أَمْرِنَا نُذِقْهُ مِنْ عَذَابِ السَّعِيْرِ. يَعْمَلُوْنَ لَهُ مَا يَشَآءُ مِنْ مَّحَارِيْبَ وَتَمَاثِيْلَ وَجِفَانٍ كَالْجَوَابِ وَقُدُوْرٍ رَّاسِيَاتٍ اِعْمَلُوا آلَ دَاوُودَ شُكْرًا وَقَلِيْلٌ مِّنْ عِبَادِیَ الشَّكُوْرُ. In a similar way, We subdued the wind for Solomon.[1] The going of the wind [taking along his ships] would be of one month and return too would be of one month.[2] And We made a spring of molten brass to flow for him and had also subdued the jinn who would work in front of him at the behest of his Lord and had said: “Those among them who shows disobedience to Our directive, We will make him taste the flavour of Fire. They would make for him whatever he wanted from among arches, statues, basins as large as watering-troughs, and gigantic cauldrons stationed on hearths – “Be grateful [to your Lord]! Family of David.” In reality, few among My servants are grateful. (34:12-13) (Excerpt from Quranic Exegesis: Javed Ahmed Ghamidi) (Translated by Dr. Shehzad Saleem) _______________________ [1] i.e., put it into his service. The لِ in لِسُلِيْمَان shows that the verb سَخَّرْنَا is suppressed here. Solomon (sws) was the son of David (sws) who succeeded him both as a prophet and as a ruler. His era was around 965 to 926 BC. The meaning of subduing the wind for him is that his fleets were so advanced that they could travel for months in the sea. Explanation follows. [2] . The cause is mentioned to connote its effect and the purpose is to refer to the sailing of ships from one place to another, as has been mentioned in the translation. Imam Amin Ahsan Islahi writes: … This is because the real power Solomon (sws) had was regarding winds. Obviously, the long travels were only possible if these ships were of large size and at the same time the system to control the wind so profound and stable that they were able to sail in every type of sea while facing various types of winds. (Amin Ahsan Islahi, Tadabbur-i Qur’an, vol. 6, 300)