Saying: exalt not yourselves against me and come to me in submission (31)

She said: O chiefs! give me advice respecting my affair: I never decide an affair until you are in my presence (32)

They said: We are possessors of strength and possessors of mighty prowess, and the command is yours, therefore see what you will command (33)

She said: Surely the kings, when they enter a town, ruin it and make the noblest of its people to be low, and thus they (always) do; (34)

And surely I am going to send a present to them, and shall wait to see what (answer) do the messengers bring back (35)

So when he came to Sulaiman, he said: What! will you help me with wealth? But what Allah has given me is better than what He has given you. Nay, you are exultant because of your present; (36)

Go back to them, so we will most certainly come to them with hosts which they shall have no power to oppose, and we will most certainly expel them therefrom in abasement, and they shall be in a state of ignominy (37)

He said: O chiefs! which of you can bring to me her throne before they come to me in submission? (38)

One audacious among the jinn said: I will bring it to you before you rise up from your place; and most surely I am strong (and) trusty for it (39)

One who had the knowledge of the Book said: I will bring it to you in the twinkling of an eye. Then when he saw it settled beside him, he said: This is of the grace of my Lord that He may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful; and whoever is grateful, he is grateful only for his own soul, and whoever is ungrateful, then surely my Lord is Self-sufficient, Honored (40)