They said, “We are endued with strength and are endued with mighty valour.- But to command is thine:  See therefore what thou wilt command us.”

She said, “Kings when they enter a city spoil it, and abase the mightiest of its people:  and in like manner will these also do.

But I will send to them with a gift, and await what my envoys bring back.”

And when the messenger came to Solomon, he said, “Aid ye me with riches?  But what God hath given to me is better than what he hath given you:  yet ye glory in your gifts: 

Return to them:  for we will surely come to them with forces which they cannot withstand, and we will drive them from their land humbled and contemptible.”

Said he, “O nobles, which of you will bring me her throne before they come to me, submitting? (Muslims).”

An Efreet7 of the Djinn said:  “I will bring it thee ere thou risest from thy place:  I have power for this and am trusty.”

And one who had the knowledge of Scripture said, “I will bring it to thee in the twinkling of an eye."8 And when he saw it set before him, he said, “This is of the favour of my Lord, to try me whether I will be thankful or unthankful.  And he who is thankful is thankful to his own behoof; and as for him who is unthankful-truly my Lord is self-sufficient, bounteous!”

Said he, “Make her throne so that she know it not:  we shall see whether she hath or not guidance.”

And when she came he said, “Is thy throne like this?” She said, “As though it were the same.”  “And we,” said he, “have had knowledge given us before her, and have been Muslims.”

But the gods she had worshipped instead of God had led her astray:  for she was of a people who believe not.

It was said to her,"Enter the Palace:”  and when she saw it, she thought it a lake of water, and bared her legs.  He said, “It is a palace paved with glass.”

She said, “O my Lord!  I have sinned against my own soul, and I resign myself, with Solomon, to God the Lord of the Worlds.”

And of old we sent to Themoud their brother Saleh, with “Serve ye God:"but lo! they became two sets of disputants wrangling with each other.

He said, “O my people, why, if ye ask not pardon of God that ye may find mercy, hasten ye on evil rather than good?”

They said,"We augur9 ill concerning thee and those who are with thee.”  He said, “The ills of which ye augur10 depend on God.  But ye are a people on your trial.”

And there were in the city nine persons who committed excesses in the land and did not that which is right.

They said, “Swear ye to one another by God that we will surely fall on him and on his family by night:  then will be say to the avenger of blood, we witnessed not the destruction of his family:  and verily we speak the truth.”

And they devised a device, and we devised a device, and they were not aware of it-