Who was "queen of Saba"?
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There's not much info about a woman known as "The Queen of Saba" in the Qur'an, but it's enough to identify her in history. The story begins with "hudhud" (a spy) was late on Suleymaan's army inspection due to he saw people having queen and worship the Sun. We can conclude that these people were one of sun-cults, probably Shamash's. Next we can see that Suleymaan sent her a letter telling them to come to him as surrenders. As she speaks to nobles from her people we can see that they were some sort of "democracy" or, better to say, civilized people, thus we could understand Sun-worship as their focus on enlightenment or culture above all, as for example French society in time of kings named Louis.
She decided to send a gift to Suleymaan to prevent their surrending, but Suleymaan was insulted and sent an army to escort them. Then the main clue comes when Suleymaan asked who'll bring out for him her 'arš before they come as surrenders. Word 'arš is understood as throne, people think that even Allah has the Throne, Glory be to Him who's above all we prescribe to Him.
In 6141 we have a passive ma'roošaat مَعْرُوشَات from the same root, used for gardens. This is translated as "trellised gardens" and these are gardens with a support for plants so they can be lifted up, hanging. This queen's 'arš is nothing else but the Hanging Gardens and she's the queen Semiramis. This understanding can also come from a verb ya'rišoone يَعْرِشُونَ used in 7137 and 1668 and translated as erect/construct. In relation to gardens erecting them and making a construction for them is what Hanging Gardens were.
These gardens were in Babylon, but since Greeks and Romans called Nineveh "New Babylon" and "Babylon" it's more likely that they were near modern day city of Mosul.
From this story I understood that queen Semiramis thought that Suleymaan is some savage man, not emancipated as her people, who wants to put her in prison and chains. When he ordered the Gardens like hers to be made, so she can be in pleasant environment with a pleasant man, she wanted to be on his level, and surrendered herself to Suleymaan's Rabb (Teacher), to Allah, Rabb of all who wanna know about everything. After all, she surrendered but not to Suleymaan, she surrendered to Allah with Suleymaan.