Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[When Solomon learned that the Queen of Sheba was coming,] he said [to his council]: “O you nobles! Which of you can bring me her throne ere she and her followers come unto me in willing surrender to God?”
Arthur John Arberry
He said, 'O Council, which one of you will bring me her throne, before they come to me in surrender?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
He said (to his own men): "Ye chiefs! which of you can bring me her throne before they come to me in submission?"
Arabic
قَالَ یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلۡمَلَؤُا۟ أَیُّكُمۡ یَأۡتِینِی بِعَرۡشِهَا قَبۡلَ أَن یَأۡتُونِی مُسۡلِمِینَ ٣٨
Transliteration (2021)
qāla yāayyuhā l-mala-u ayyukum yatīnī biʿarshihā qabla an yatūnī mus'limīn