Explanation of the verse “Verily, I have wronged myself, and I submit [in Islam, together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)] to Allaah, the Lord of the ‘Aalameen(mankind, jinn and all that exists)”
Question

                In the story of Sulaymaan and the Queen of Saba’ in Soorat al-Naml it says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“She said: ‘My Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, and I submit [in Islam, together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)] to Allaah, the Lord of the ‘Aalameen(mankind, jinn and all that exists).’”

[al-Naml 27:44] 

I understand that the meaning is that she had wronged herself by disbelieving and that she submitted (became Muslim) after the truth became clear to her. But the wording of the verse, and the fact that there is no symbol for a pause or full stop after the word nafsi (myself) could make one imagine that the meaning is the opposite, that she wronged herself by submitting – Allaah forbid. Is there any explanation?.
Praise be to Allah.Allaah says 
    in Soorat al-Naml (interpretation of the meaning): 
“It was 
    said to her: ‘Enter As‑Sarh’ (a glass surface with water underneath it or a 
    palace): but when she saw it, she thought it was a pool, and she (tucked up 
    her clothes) uncovering her legs. Sulaymaan (Solomon) said: ‘Verily, it is a 
    Sarh (a glass surface with water underneath it or a palace).’ She said: ‘My 
    Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, and I submit [in Islam, together with 
    Sulaymaan (Solomon)] to Allaah, the Lord of the ‘Aalameen(mankind, jinn and 
    all that exists)’”
[al-Naml 
    27:44]
In this 
    verse Allaah tells us of the great surprise that Sulaymaan (peace be upon 
    him) had prepared for the Queen of Saba’, which was a palace of glass, the 
    floor of which was above the water, and the Queen stood astonished before 
    these wonders, the like of which no human could produce, and she turned to 
    Allaah and spoke to Him. She acknowledged that she had wronged herself by 
    previously worshipping others, and she declared that she was submitting, 
    with Sulaymaan, to Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds. 
This is what 
    is understood from the context of the story and it is also what is implied 
    by the rules of the Arabic language. 
The phrase
    zalamtu nafsi (I have wronged myself) is a verbal clause which is the 
    predicate of the word Inni (Verily, I). 
This is 
    followed by the conjunction wa (and) which connects one phrase to 
    another, and she says, Wa aslamtu ma’a Sulaymaan (and I submit [in 
    Islam, together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)]) . 
See 
    I’raab al-Qur’aan wa Bayaanuhu by Muhiy al-Deen Darweesh (7/216) and 
    al-Jadwal fi I’raab al-Qur’aan by Mahmoud Saafi (9/415). 
What is 
    meant is: I submit with Sulaymaan to Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds. 
This is the 
    correct meaning, because the grammarians say that the conjunction only 
    limits repetition in a sentence.  
Ibn ‘Aqeel 
    says in Sharh Alfiyat Ibn Maalik (2/208): 
The 
    conjunction implies repetition without needing to repeat everything. End 
    quote. 
So instead 
    of saying ja’a Zayd wa ja’a ‘Amr (Zayd came and ‘Amr came) you can 
    shorten it by saying: Ja’a Zayd wa ‘Amr (Zayd and ‘Amr came). 
Similarly, 
    sentence or phrases may be joined in like manner: 
Instead of 
    saying: Verily Allaah knows what you are doing and Allaah will bring you to 
    account for it, you can shorten it and say: Allaah knows what you are doing 
    and will bring you to account for it. 
The verse 
    must be understood on this basis. So what the verse means is: 
I have 
    wronged myself, and I submit with Sulaymaan to Allaah, the Lord of the 
    Worlds. 
From a 
    linguistic point of view, it is not necessarily that the two sentences 
    joined together have the meaning. 
Professor 
    ‘Abbaas Hasan says in al-Nahw al-Waafi (3/557): 
If the word 
    that comes after the conjunction wa is not singular, it may mean that 
    both phrases refer to the same action, such as nabata al-ward wa nabata 
    al-qasab (the flowers grew and the reeds grew), or it may not, such as
    hadarat al-tayyaarah wa lam tahdar al-sayyaarah (the plane came but 
    the car did not come). End quote. 
As Allaah 
    mentioned the words of the Queen of Saba’ after the conjunction wa – “(and 
    I submit [in Islam, together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)]” – it is not 
    permissible to understand this as an elaboration of the words that came 
    before the conjunction, from a purely linguistic point of view. How can that 
    be so, when the two meanings are clearly opposites? 
The context 
    demonstrates that the queen acknowledged that she had wronged herself when 
    she worshipped the sun instead of Allaah, and she repented from that shirk 
    and submitted and worshipped Allaah alone, the Lord of the Worlds. 
Thus the 
    meaning is correct, and the misunderstanding of the verse asked about here 
    is dispelled. 
The 
    misunderstanding – as far as grammatical rules are concerned – may have been 
    valid if the wording had been: 
“I have 
    wronged myself: I submitted with Sulaymaan” with no conjunction, if the 
    second phrase had been an apposition of the first phrase, as in the verse 
    (interpretation of the meaning): 
“and 
    whoever does this shall receive the punishment.
69. The 
    torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide 
    therein in disgrace”

    [al-Furqaan 25:68-69]
The doubling 
    of the torment is an explanation of the punishment incurred by the one who 
    commits major sin. 
The 
    misunderstanding – as far as grammatical rules are concerned – may also have 
    been valid if the conjunction had been fa, and she had said “Inni 
    zalamtu nafsi fa aslamtu ma’a Sulaymaan (Verily, I have wronged 
    myself, and so I submit [in Islam, together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)])” 
    because the conjunction fa is often used to indicate a sequence, 
    i.e., it points to the reason, such as saying rama al-sayyaad al-taa’ir 
    fa qatalahu (the hunter shot the bird and (so) he killed it). 
See 
    al-Nahw al-Waafi (3/574) 
But the 
    wording of the Qur’aan is quite clear:  
“She 
    said: ‘My Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, and I submit [in Islam, 
    together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)] to Allaah, the Lord of the 
    ‘Aalameen(mankind, jinn and all that exists)’”
[al-Naml 
    27:44]
So the 
    questioner’s confusion is not valid and does not affect the correct meaning 
    and the principles of Arabic grammar. 
And Allaah 
    knows best.