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The one who had knowledge of the, revealed, Scripture - and this was [one] āsif b. Barkhiyā, a righteous individual with knowledge of Allah’s Greatest Name, which when invoked [in supplication] for something it is [immediately] granted - said: 'I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you, after you look at something. So he [the afreet] said to him, 'Look up towards the heaven', which he did, and when his glance returned [in front of him] he found it [Bilqīs' throne] placed before him - for in the instance in which Solomon looked up to the heaven, āsif supplicated by invoking the Greatest Name that Allahu ta’ālā bring it [thereto]; and this was done by having it travel under the earth until it sprung up below Solomon's seat (kursī). Then, when he saw it standing, still, before him, he said, 'This, bringing it to me, is of my Rabb's bounty, that He may try me, test me, whether I give thanks (read a-ashkur, pronouncing both hamzas; or by replacing the second one with an alif; or by not pronouncing the second one, but inserting an alif between the one not pronounced and the other one or without [the insertion]) or am ungrateful, for the favour. And whoever gives thanks, gives thanks only for his own sake, because the reward for his thanks shall be his, and whoever is ungrateful, for the favour, [should know] then my Rabb is surely Independent, with no need of his thanks, Generous', by being bounteous to those who are ungrateful for it.