and in your own selves! So, do you not perceive?

And in the heavens, there is your sustenance and all that you have been promised.

So, by the Lord of the heavens and the earth, it (the Day of Recompense) is a reality, as sure as the fact that you (can) speak.

Has there come to you the story of the honoured guests of Ibrāhīm?

When they (the angels in human form) entered unto him and said, “We greet you with Salām .” He said, “Salām on you.” (And he said to himself,) “(They are) unknown people.”

Then he slipped off to his home and fetched a fattened calf.

So he presented it before them (to eat, but being angels, they refrained.) He said, “Would you not eat?”

So he felt some fear in his heart. They said, “Be not scared.” And they gave him the good news of (the birth of) a knowledgeable boy.

So his wife came forward with a clamor, and slapped her own face and said, “(How can I have a child when I am) a barren old woman?”

They said, “This is how your Lord has said. Surely, He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.”

He (Ibrāhīm) said (to the angels), “Then, what is your mission O messengers?”

They said, “We are sent to a guilty people, (i.e. the people of Sodom)

so that we may send down upon them stones of clay,

marked by your Lord for the transgressors.”

So, We let the believers who were there to come out (from danger),

but We did not find in it any Muslims, except one house.

And We left in this (event) a sign (of deterrence) for those who fear the painful punishment.

And (We left a similar sign) in (the story of) Mūsā, when We sent him to Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) with a clear proof.

So he turned away along with his chiefs and said, “ (Mūsā is) a magician or a madman!”

So We seized him and his army, and cast them into the sea, as he was of culpable behaviour.