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﴿23﴾ إِنّـِي وَجَدتُّ امْرَأَةً تَمْلِكُهُمْ وَأُوتِيَتْ مِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
وَلَهَا عَرْشٌ عَظِيمٌ
﴿24﴾ وَجَدتُّهَا وَقَوْمَهَا يَسْجُدُونَ لِلشَّمْسِ مِندُونِ اللَّهِ
وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ فَصَدَّهُمْ عَنِ السَّبِيلِ فَهُمْ
لاَيَهْتَدُونَ
23. “ Verily I found a woman ruling over them, and she has been given of
everything, and she possesses a magnificent throne.”
24. “ I found her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah, and
Satan has made their deeds fair-seeming to them and he has barred them from the
(right) way, so they are not guided aright.”
Commentary:
However, Hoopoe explained the event of going to the land of Sheba and its
Queen under the name of Bilqiys, as follows:
“ Verily I found a woman ruling over them, and
she has been given of everything, and she possesses a magnificent throne.”
By these three short sentences, the hoopoe told Solomon nearly all
qualifications of the country of Sheba and that how it was governed. First of
all, it said that it was a habitable country with all kinds of merits and
potentialities. The next matter was that a woman was ruling over there who had a
very glorious court, perhaps even more glorious than the organizations of
Solomon, since though the hoopoe had certainly seen Solomon’s throne it
mentioned that of the Queen as ‘a magnificent throne’. By this speech, the
hoopoe made Solomon understand that he should not think that the
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