And asked them: "What matter, O angels, brings you here?"
He said, “And what is your next task, O the sent angels?”
He said, 'And what is your business, envoys?'
He added: "And what [else] may you have in view, O you [heavenly] messengers?"
He said: what is your errand, sent ones?
[Ibrahim (Abraham) again] said: "What then is the business on which you have come, O Messengers?"
He said, “So what is your business, O envoys?”
He added: "What is your errand O sent ones?"
He said: "What then is the business for which you have come, O messengers"
He said: And afterward what is your business, O ye messengers (of Allah)?
He said, ‘O messengers, what is now your errand?’
He asked: 'Messengers, what is your errand'
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
Messengers, what is your task?"
He said: What is your business then, O apostles?
Q<u>a</u>la fam<u>a</u> kha<u>t</u>bukum ayyuh<u>a</u> almursaloon<b>a</b>
Then he asked, "What then is your business, O messengers?"
Abraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of Allah)?"
قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ
Abraham said: What is the matter that has brought you - O Messengers - from Allah?
Abraham said: What is the matter that has brought you - O Messengers - from Allah?
<h2 class="title">The Reason why the Angels came</h2><p>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,</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَى قَوْمٍ مُّجْرِمِينَ</div><p>(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,</p><div class="text_uthmani arabic">إِلاَّ امْرَأَتَهُ قَدَّرْنَآ إِنَّهَا لَمِنَ الْغَـبِرِينَ </div><p>(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.</p>
The Reason why the Angels cameAllah 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.