# What happened when the Queen of Sheba came to Sulayman? *Her arrival: 'is your throne like this?' and the floor of glass* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/8/ - Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (40:51–45:09) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=2451s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/ **Topics:** Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** She was shown a throne grander than hers in a mere waiting room and humbled, then became Muslim; her uncovering her legs on the glass floor was no obscenity. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that if the Queen of Sheba uncovering her lower legs had been an obscenity, it would not be stated in the Quran. **Evidence, his words at 44:30:** “obviously if it was an obscenity then it won't be stated in the Quran and it wouldn't be happening in front of prophets” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=2670s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says that on arriving the Queen of Sheba was received in a waiting area and asked whether her throne was like this. He calls the plain reading dull and prefers a diplomatic hint: this is only where guests sit, and is yours like it? Her answer, that it was as though it were the same, shows she was humbled that a throne surpassing her landmark one stood in a waiting room. He describes her entering the palace, thinking the glass floor was water and lifting her dress, then becoming Muslim, and says the stories add that she married Sulayman. On those troubled that she uncovered her lower legs, he says that if it were an obscenity it would not be stated in the Quran nor happen before a prophet. ## Sources and names cited - the Queen of Sheba - Sulayman (Solomon) - Quran 27:42 (is your throne like this? it is as though it were): https://quran.com/27/42 - Quran 27:44 (enter the palace; she thought it a pool and uncovered her shins): https://quran.com/27/44 ## Transcript (machine tier, 40:51–45:09) [40:11] further make it even more glorious and he said make it so you know what it's already amazing take it up a notch to that extent that by doing so lucky ruler haha that even her throne she will be literally when she thinks looks at this throne so she will neck here and test and kill our shall be more our belly had a lot that she looking at this [40:51] throne thinks damn and I thought mine was good you seen nikiro lahar and I like that that way of reading it other people took it in the other way that he meant disguise it but I mean both the verb can mean both things so it's okay now the interesting thing is look fella my dad when when the Queen of Sheba arise when bilities arrives assuming her name is bill piece she arrives Kayla you see when you arrive at a royal palace in the past you had to come into a waiting [41:28] area you arrived and then you are received like you're kind of like brought in and the fascinating thing is you see Fallon Majid it is said to her Solomon doesn't say it is said to her that you know take like take a seat and then she's asked is your throne also like this a haka there are cookie you know like that you see some Muslims understood from this that he's saying oh is this like your throne by the way and she's [42:05] saying yeah it's kind of like that to me is a bit of a a kind of dull understand see the other understanding is it said in a in a diplomatic but there's a hint of kind of like hmm you know this is just a waiting room this isn't even the way the King sits that's inside this is that this is just where the guests sit and is yours wrong by the ways your throne like this and [42:35] she says and no more or less but it's more or less like that because you see the whole point was she saw that damn and one of my best landmark icons is my throne and they have one which tops that and it's just in the waiting area Wow you understand and and so she responds and know who you know it's it's like this moralist she doesn't say it is [43:13] it because even she feels like damn you know because she doesn't want to say to me Lois oh he's exactly like it she just says perhaps what routine la Lima mean Cobley hakuna muslimeen and then she's invited to enter the palace of solomon fella who'd Felisa and it's so majestic that when she steps in she thinks it's water falen Mara Alto has a but to Luger Rakesh efforts on Satya so she lifts up her dress to kind of because she thinks she's stepping into [43:52] water and he says announcer Homer Adam Minka why he says it's just glass but it's not water and then she eventually becomes Muslim and the story said states that generally I'm as far as I'm aware that she marries Solomon but that that has another interesting point in it by the way that you know people say oh my god how did she reveal her lower legs and oh my god and what's this about and then the Mufasa Dean have had to kind of do a crowbar to justify that story look it is what it [44:30] is and you know and the whole point is that this is in the Quran it's stating that obviously if it was an obscenity then it won't be stated in the Quran and it wouldn't be happening in front of prophets but the point is that this whole story the reason I mentioned this story is just to kind of highlight that we when we approach the Quran we have different ways we can either take things as mythology as kind of like myths that paranormal events or we can zoom out and ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zOTvTgdUMV8/s/8. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/8/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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