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.