Commentary
And when knowledge was established that he would certainly do what he was commanded, and that nothing would prevent him from it except the excellence that he had greatly described, the soul longed for her saying at that time. It was as if it were said: So he took the book and went with it. When he presented it to her and she read it, and she was a reading and writing woman from the people of Tubba', she said to her people after she had gathered them, honoring them, or only to their nobles: O assembly! meaning: the nobles.
And when it was the custom of kings that no one reaches them with a letter or otherwise except through their own people, she honored this letter by the fact that it reached her in a manner other than that custom. So she built her saying for the action: Indeed, a book has been presented to me, meaning: by the presentation of one who presented it in a strange manner. A book, meaning: a written page in which there are concise and comprehensive words.
And when the noble, as previously mentioned in Al-Ra'd, is one who conceals the faults of morals by displaying their virtues because he is the opposite of the base, and this book contained a matter of honor that was remarkable and unprecedented from the sender, the messenger, and the beginning with the greatest name to what it has of the conciseness of the wording and the attainment of the meaning, she said: Noble.
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