Tafsir for verses: 27:29, 27:30, 27:31
قَالَتۡ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡمَلَؤُاْ إِنِّيٓ أُلۡقِيَ إِلَيَّ كِتَٰبٞ كَرِيمٌ ٢٩ ﴿29 إِنَّهُۥ مِن سُلَيۡمَٰنَ وَإِنَّهُۥ بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٣٠ ﴿30 أَلَّا تَعۡلُواْ عَلَيَّ وَأۡتُونِي مُسۡلِمِينَ ٣١ ﴿31
29She (the queen) said (to her officials after receiving the letter), “O chieftains, there has been delivered to me an esteemed letter. 30It is from Sulaimān, and it is (in the following words :) With the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Very-Merciful. 31Do not rebel against me, and come to me in submission.”
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Commentary

It is noble, good in its content and what is in it, or I described it with nobility, because it is from a noble king or sealed.

The Prophet ﷺ said: "The nobility of the book is its seal." [It was narrated by al-Tabarani in al-Awsat from the narration of Muhammad ibn Marwan. He is al-Suddi the younger from Ibn Jurayj from Ata from Ibn Abbas. It was also narrated by al-Qudai in Musnad al-Bayhaqi.] And he ﷺ used to write to the non-Arabs, and it was said to him: They do not accept except a letter that has a seal on it, so he made a seal. [This is agreed upon from the narration of Qatadah from Anas who said: He wanted to write ... and mentioned it.] And from Ibn al-Muqaffa: Whoever writes to his brother a letter and does not seal it has treated it lightly. And it was said: The beginning with 'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful' is a resumption and clarification of what was conveyed to her, as if when she said: I have been given a noble book, it was said to her: From whom is it? And what is it?

She said: Indeed, it is from Solomon and it is: such and such. Abdullah read: And indeed, it is from Solomon and it. This is in conjunction with: Indeed. And it was read: That it is from Solomon and that, with the opening on that as a substitution for the book, as if it were said: It was conveyed to me that it is from Solomon. And it is permissible that she meant: Because it is from Solomon and because it, as if she justified its nobility by it being from Solomon, and its beginning with the name of Allah. And Ubayy read: That it is from Solomon and that 'In the name of Allah,' as an explanation. And 'that' in 'Do not be arrogant' is also explanatory. Do not be arrogant: Do not be haughty as kings do. And Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, read with a ghain with a dot from al-ghulu: which is exceeding the limit. It is narrated that the copy of the letter was from Abdullah Solomon ibn Dawood to Bilqis, the queen of Sheba: Peace be upon those who follow guidance, as for what follows: Do not be arrogant towards me and come to me as Muslims. And the letters of the prophets, peace be upon them, were concise and not lengthy, and the letter was sealed with musk and stamped with his seal. The hoopoe found her sleeping in her palace in Ma'rib, and when she slept, she would lock the doors and place the keys under her head. He entered through a window and dropped the letter on her neck while she was lying down. It was said: He tapped her and she woke up startled. It was said: He came to her with the leaders and soldiers around her, and he hovered for a while while the people looked until she raised her head, and he threw the letter into her lap. She was a literate, writing Arab from the lineage of Tubba' ibn Sharahil al-Himyari. When she saw the seal, she trembled and humbled herself, and she said to her people what she said: Muslims, submissive or believers.

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