42 Preface فَلَمّا جاءَت قيلَ أَهٰكَذا عَرشُكِ ۖ قالَت كَأَنَّهُ هُوَ ۚ وَأوتينَا العِلمَ مِن قَبلِها وَكُنّا مُسلِمينَAli Quli QaraiSo when she came, it was said [to her], ‘Is your throne like this one?’ She said, ‘It seems to be the same, and we were informed before it,1 and we had submitted.’ That is, ‘we had knowledge of Solomon’s extraordinary authority even before we saw such feats and we had submitted to him.’