Surah Al-Hijr: Verse 57 - قال فما خطبكم أيها المرسلون... - English
Tafsir of Verse 57, Surah Al-Hijr
قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ
English Translation
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"English Transliteration
Qala fama khatbukum ayyuha almursaloonaTafsir of Verse 57
He said, 'And what is your business, envoys?'
Abraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of Allah)?"
The Reason why the Angels came
Allah tells us that after Ibrahim had calmed down from the excitement of this good news, he started to ask them why they had come to him. They said,
إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَى قَوْمٍ مُّجْرِمِينَ
(We have been sent to a guilty people.) meaning the people of Lut. They told him that they were going to save the family of Lut from among those people, except for his wife, because she was one of those who were doomed. Thus it was said,
إِلاَّ امْرَأَتَهُ قَدَّرْنَآ إِنَّهَا لَمِنَ الْغَـبِرِينَ
(Except for his wife, of whom We have decreed that she shall be of those who remain behind.) i.e., she was one of those who would be left behind and will be destroyed.
