The Holy Quran 27:42 — Surah An-Naml

Arabic text

فَلَمَّا جَآءَتْ قِيلَ أَهَـٰكَذَا عَرْشُكِ ۖ قَالَتْ كَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ ۚ وَأُوتِينَا ٱلْعِلْمَ مِن قَبْلِهَا وَكُنَّا مُسْلِمِينَ

Translation

When she arrived, she was asked, “Is your throne something like this?" She replied, “It seems like this is the very one. We were informed from before (we arrived that you are Allaah's Rasool) and (we had therefore already) submitted."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Bilqis's truthfulness: she neither said, “Yes, it is the very one”, nor denied it altogether, but expressed exactly what the reality was: the throne is the same, but some of its features have changed, and since the difference is not significant, one may say that it is as if it were the very one.

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