Al-Hijr
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[15:51]
AND TELL THEM [once again] about Abraham’s guests

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* v.51 : For a more detailed story of Abraham and the heavenly messengers, see verses 69-76 of sūrah 11 (Hūd), which was revealed shortly before the present one. The connection between this story and the preceding stress on God’s grace arises from Abraham’s saying (in verse 56), “And who – other than those who have utterly lost their way – could ever lose the hope of his Sustainer’s grace?” Similarly, the subsequent references (in verses 58-84) to the sinful communities that were destroyed because they refused to heed the warnings of their prophets are, obviously, meant to illustrate the reverse of God’s grace, namely, His inevitable chastisement of deliberate, unrepented sinning (verse 50 above).