Qalat ya ayyuha almalao innee olqiya ilayya kitabun kareemun
English
Ahmed Ali
(The Queen said): "O nobles, a venerable letter has been delivered to me.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : he did as solomon commanded, and balqis took the letter and went to meet her entourage. ((the queen of sheba) said: o chieftains! lo! there hath been thrown unto me a noble letter) a sealed letter.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : then, she said, to the noblemen of her people: ‘o [members of the] council, lo! (read yā ayyuhā’l-mala’u innī, pronouncing [in the last two words] both hamzas; or by not pronouncing the second one and changing it into a wāw with kasra vowelling) a noble, a sealed, letter has been delivered to me.
