Solomon comforted and soothed those messengers, dispelling fear and distress from their hearts, and explained to them the reason for not accepting the gift.
O messengers, I send you as a messenger, rejecting your gift is better than accepting it.
Tell Bilqis of the wonders you saw in the desert of gold.
So she knows we are not greedy for gold; we have brought gold from the Creator of gold.
He who wishes can turn all the earth into gold and precious jewels.
For this reason, O gold-seeker, on the Day of Judgment, God will turn this earth into silver.
We are free from gold because we are very skilled; we can turn all the earthlings into gold.
Why would we beg for gold from you? We will make you alchemists.
Abandon that if the kingdom of Saba is yours, for there are many kingdoms beyond water and clay.
He who you call a throne is bound to a plank; you think you are in the seat of honor, but you are left at the door.
You have no sovereignty over your own beard; how can you rule over good and bad?
Your beard will turn white without your desire; be ashamed of your beard, O misguided hope.
Whoever bows his head is the owner of the kingdom; without the world, he is given a hundred kingdoms.
Yet the taste of prostration before God is sweeter to you than two hundred states.
Then you will cry out that you do not want kingdoms; make that prostration your kingdom.
The kings of the world, due to their greatness, have not smelled the wine of servitude.
Otherwise, like Adham, they would wander bewildered and overturn the kingdom without delay.
But God, for the stability of this world, has sealed their eyes and mouths.
So the throne and crown become sweet to them, and we take tribute from the rulers of the world.
If you gather gold like sand from tribute, in the end, it will remain from you as a legacy.
Neither kingdom nor gold will accompany your soul; give gold, take kohl for your eyes.
So you see that this world is a narrow pit; like Joseph, you will grasp that rope.
So when you come from the pit to the roof, the soul will say, "Oh, good news, this is my boy."
In the pit, there are reflections of vision; the least of which is that it shows stone as gold.
During children's play, due to confusion, those shards appear as gold and wealth.