But when he saw their hands not reaching for it, he distrusted them and felt from them apprehension.563 They said, "Fear not. We have been sent to the people of Lot."
Notes
[563] Traditionally, if a guest refused to eat, it meant that he harbored ill will toward the host or intended him harm.
Verse 70 of Surah Hud (11:70), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 229 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
But when Abraham saw that their hands did not reach out for the calf and that they were not eating it, he was confused by them, and felt fear of them. When the angels saw his fear of them, they told him not to be afraid, and that they had been sent by Allah to the people of Lot to give them their punishment.
When he saw their hands not reaching the food37, he became suspicious and felt scared of them. They said, “Do not be scared. We have been sent to the people of Lot.”
Notes
[37] Traditionally, if a guest turned down a good gesture, it meant he harbored ill will toward the host.
But when he saw their hands went not towards it (the meal), he mistrusted them, and conceived a fear of them. They said: "Fear not, we have been sent against the people of Lût (Lot)."
And when he saw their hands reached not to it, he mistrusted them and conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! Lo! we are sent unto the folk of Lot.
But when he saw their hands went not towards the (meal), he felt some mistrust of them, and conceived a fear of them. They said: "Fear not: We have been sent against the people of Lut."
But when he saw that their hands were not extended towards it, he deemed them strange and conceived fear of them. They said: Fear not, surely we are sent to Lut's people.
So, as soon as he saw their hands not getting to it, he disclaimed them and entertained a fright of them. They said, "Do not fear (anything); surely we have been sent to the people of Lut."
Or were you witnesses when death approached Jacob, when he said to his sons, "What will you worship after me?" They said, "We will worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac - one God. And we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."
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