12 They ask: When is the day of Judgment?

13 (It is) the day when they are tried at the Fire.

14 Taste your persecution! This is what you would hasten on.

15 Surely the dutiful are amidst Gardens and fountains,

16 Taking that which their Lord gives them. Surely they were before that the doers of good.

17 They used to sleep but little at night.

18 And in the morning they asked (Divine) protection.

19 And in their wealth there was a due share for the beggar and for one who is denied (good).

20 And in the earth are signs for those who are sure,

21 And in yourselves — do you not see?

22 And in the heavens is your sustenance and that which you are promised.

23 So by the Lord of the heavens and the earth! it is surely the truth, just as you speak.

24 Has the story of Abraham’s honoured guests reached thee?

25 When they came to him, they said: Peace! Peace! said he. Strangers!

26 Then he turned aside to his family and brought a fat calf.

27 So he placed it before them. He said: Will you not eat?

28 So he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not. And they gave him the good news of a boy possessing knowledge.

29 Then his wife came up in grief, and she smote her face and said: A barren old woman!

30 They said: Thus says thy Lord. Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing.

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31 He said: what is your errand, O messengers!

32 They said: We have been sent to a guilty people

33 That we may send upon them stones of clay,