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whoever is ungrateful, (he is ungrateful only for the loss of his ownself. Certainly my Lord is Rich (Free of all needs), Bountiful} i.e. He isneither in need of thanking of the thankful, nor is He harmed by disbelief of thedisbelievers.Then, Sulaiman (Peace be upon him) ordered her throne to be altered anddisguised to test her mentality and understanding, saying {that we may seewhether she will be guided (to recognize her throne), or she will beone of those not guided. So when she came, it was said (to her): Isyour throne like this? She said: (It is) as though it were the verysame}, this is due to her understanding and clear insight that she set aside thepossibility that it was her own throne for she has just left it far away in theYemen, and that she did not know that there is any who can do this marvelousact of removing it to Jerusalem.Allah the Almighty says pertaining to Sulaiman (Peace be upon him) and hispeople {And (Sulaiman (Solomon)) said: Knowledge was bestowed onus before her, and we were submitted to Allah (in Islam as Muslimsbefore her). And that which she used to worship besides Allah hasprevented her (from Islam), for she was of a disbelieving people} i.e.worshipping the sun to whom she used to prostrate herself and her peopleinstead of Allah the Almighty in follow of the religion of her fathers andancestors with no evidence or proof of this. Sulaiman (Peace be upon him)previously ordered a Sarh (a glass surface with water underneath in which thereare various sorts of fish and other seacreatures) to be built. Afterwards, Bilqiswas ordered to enter the Sarh while Sulaiman (Peace be upon him) was sittingon his throne, {But when she saw it, she thought it was a pool, and she(tucked up her clothes) uncovering her legs. (Sulaiman (Solomon))said: "Verily, it is a Sarh (a glass surface with water underneath it or apalace)." She said: "My Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, and Isubmit [in Islam, together with Sulaiman (Solomon)). to Allah, theLord of the" Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists)}.It was said: That when Sulaiman (Peace be upon him) wanted to marry herhe asked mankind about a way of removing the hair from her legs, and theymentioned the razor, but she feared thereof. Then, he (Peace be upon him)consulted the Jinn who made the bath for him. Thus, he was the first to enterthe bath.At-Tha`labi and others said: When Sulaiman married her he returned thekingdom of Yemen to her and he used to visit her there and stay for three days amonth then comes back to Jerusalem on the flying carpet. In addition, heordered the Jinn to build him three palaces in the Yemen: Ghamdan, Salhin andBitun. And, Allah knows best!Ibn Ishaq transmitted after some scholars on the authority of Wahb Ibn Munabihthat Sulaiman (Peace be upon him) did not marry her, but he got her married towww.islambasics.com
the king of Ramadan and let her ruling over the Yemen again, and he (Peace beupon him) subjected to her the king of the Jinn in Yemen to build her theaforementioned three palaces. This narration is not authenticated like theprevious one, and Allah knows best!www.islambasics.com
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Page 4 and 5: Translator's NoteAll praise and tha
Page 6 and 7: Publisher's NoteAll Praise is due t
Page 8 and 9: In the Name ofAllah, Most Gracious,
Page 10 and 11: me along with your previous sins. 1
Page 12 and 13: whom was mentioned second was the w
Page 14 and 15: Allah the Almighty says:In the Name
Page 16 and 17: Sulaiman's dearest and most preciou
Page 18 and 19: Prophet, by Allah, he was nothing b
Page 20 and 21: Shayatin (devils) gave out (falsely
Page 22 and 23: him: {We are only for trial, so dis
Page 24 and 25: ighteous good deeds, and this none
Page 26 and 27: and the town was called Antioch. Th
Page 28 and 29: Mujahid and Qatadah said: This mean
Page 30 and 31: you about the murdered and you say
Page 32 and 33: me?" [Musa (Moses)] said: "If I ask
Page 34 and 35: Allah the Almighty says: {And as fo
Page 36 and 37: Is Al-Khadir Still Alive?The majori
Page 38 and 39: Lord and He answered you (saying):
Page 40 and 41: In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious
Page 42 and 43: sinners) will not be questioned of
Page 44 and 45: people saw what happened to Qarun a
Page 46 and 47: the present]: "Go back to them. We
Page 48 and 49: on was ornamented and studded with
Page 54 and 55: adorned other than Allah the Almigh
Page 58 and 59: people looked unfamiliar to him. Ev
Page 60 and 61: whom You will. It was thus said to
Page 62 and 63: Also, he was said to be a Prophet,
Page 64 and 65: and he was from among the offspring
Page 66 and 67: the setting of the sun. {He found i
Page 68 and 69: down from every mound. And the true
Page 70 and 71: people of Paradise." We shouted, "A
Page 72 and 73: In Ibn Jarir's exegesis of the Qur'
Page 76 and 77: Qarnain. Say (0 Muhammad (Peace be
Page 78: was blessed because he was in their
Page 83 and 84: here will be for me the best (wealt
Page 87 and 88: that charity must be taken out of f
Page 89 and 90: disobedience and rebellion. When th
Page 93 and 94: self-restrained, taciturn, deep-thi
Page 95 and 96: Isra', 37) i.e. you will neither be
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cause death to this animal so that
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious
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ancestor whose grave used to be sto
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Ibn Ishaq said: the Abyssinians fle
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