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Does the Almighty’s saying: "She said, 'My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, and I have submitted with Solomon to Allah, Lord of the all-worlds'" mean that the Queen of Sheba wronged herself by embracing Islam?

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In His saying, the Almighty: (She said: "My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, and I have surrendered with Solomon to Allah, Lord of the worlds"), her statement "I have wronged myself" is a verbal sentence, and the conjunction "wa" (and) in "wa aslamtu ma'a Sulaymana" (and I have surrendered with Solomon) conjoins a sentence to a sentence. The correct تقدير (implied meaning) is "Indeed, I have wronged myself, and indeed, I have surrendered with Solomon to Allah, Lord of the worlds." The conjunction was brought to shorten the repetition in the sentence, and it is not linguistically necessary for the conjoined sentences to share the same meaning. The context shows that the Queen confessed to having wronged herself by worshipping other than Allah, so she surrendered to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The questioner's query has no basis in this linguistic and grammatical context.

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