Surah 51

And also in your ownselves. Will you not then see?

And in the heaven is your provision, and that which you are promised.

Then by the Lord of the heaven and the earth, it is the truth (i.e. what has been promised to you), just as it is the truth that you can speak.

Has the story reached you, of the honoured guests [three angels; Jibrîl (Gabriel) along with another two] of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)?

When they came in to him and said: "Salâm, (peace be upon you)!" He answered: "Salâm, (peace be upon you)," and said: "You are a people unknown to me."

Then he turned to his household, and brought out a roasted calf [as the property of Ibrâhîm (Abraham) was mainly cows].

And placed it before them, (saying): "Will you not eat?"

Then he conceived fear of them (when they ate not). They said: "Fear not."[2] And they gave him glad tidings of a son having knowledge (about Allâh and His religion of True Monotheism).

Then his wife came forward with a loud voice: she smote her face, and said: "A barren old woman!"[3]

They said: "Even so says your Lord.[4] Verily, He is the All-Wise, the All-Knower."

[Ibrâhîm (Abraham)] said: "Then for what purpose you have come, O Messengers?"

They said: "We have been sent to a people who are Mujrimûn (polytheists, sinners, criminals, disbelievers in Allâh)

To send down upon them stones of baked clay.

Marked by your Lord for the Musrifûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners - those who trespass Allâh’s set limits in evil-doings by committing great sins).

So We brought out from therein the believers.

But We found not there any household of the Muslims except one [of Lût (Lot) and his two daughters].

And We have left there a sign (i.e. the place of the Dead Sea[5] in Palestine) for those who fear the painful torment.

And in Mûsâ (Moses) (too, there is a sign), when We sent him to Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) with a manifest authority.

But [Fir‘aun (Pharaoh)] turned away (from Belief in might) along with his hosts, and said: "A sorcerer, or a madman."

So We took him and his hosts, and dumped them into the sea, for he was blameworthy.