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Bilqis is the name given to the Queen of Sheba in the Quran. She goes from worshipping the sun and moon to becoming the wife of the prophet Sulayman.


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Sulayman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (314 words)
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.
India: Justice, the victim - Gujarat state fails to protect women from violence (17778 words)
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.
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