Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: An-Naml, Ayah 42
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(So, when she came, it was said (unto her)) Solomon said to her: (Is thy throne like this? She said: (It is) as though it were the very one. And (Solomon said): We were given the knowledge before her) Allah has given me [knowledge], by changing her throne and bringing to me, even before she arrived, (and we had surrendered (to Allah)) and we were sincere before she arrived.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
So when she came it was said to her ‘Is your throne like this?’ She said ‘It as though it is the one’. She had in fact recognised it; but she made a pretence to them just as they made a pretence to her given that when she was asked about the throne it was not said ‘Is this your throne?’ for had it been so she would have replied ‘Yes it is’. When Solomon realised that she was perceptive and knowledgeable he said ‘And we were given the knowledge before her and we had submitted to God.