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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- Tell them about the guests of Abraham,
- When they entered his presence and said "Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid of you!"
- They said: "Fear not! we give thee glad tidings of a son endowed with wisdom."
- He said: "Do ye give me glad tidings that old age has seized me? Of what then, is your good news?"
- They said: "We give thee glad tidings in truth: Be not then in despair!"
- He said: "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, but such as go astray?"
- Abraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of Allah)?"
- They said: "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin.
- "Excepting the adherents of Lut: Them we are certainly (charged) to save (from harm), all --
- "Except his wife, who, we have ascertained, will be among those who will lag behind."
- At length when the messengers arrived among the adherents of Lut
- He said: "Ye appear to be uncommon folk."
- They said: "Yea, we have come to thee to accomplish that of which they doubt.
- "We have brought to thee that which is inevitably due, and assuredly we tell the truth.
- "Then travel by night with thy household, when a portion of the night (yet remains), and do thou bring up the rear: Let no one amongst you look back, but pass on whither ye are ordered."
- And We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning.
- The inhabitants of the City came in (mad) joy (at news of the young men).
- Lut said: "These are my guests: Disgrace me not:
- "But fear Allah, and shame me not."
- They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?"
- He said: "There are my daughters (to marry). If ye must act (so)."
- Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro.
- But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning,
- And We turned (the Cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
- Behold! in this are Signs for those who by tokens do understand.
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