The Spider
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[29:31]
And so, when Our [heavenly] messengers came to Abraham with the glad tiding [of the birth of Isaac], they [also] said, "Behold, we are about to destroy the people of that land, for its people are truly evildoers!"

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* v.31 : See 11:69 ff., as well as the first half of the corresponding note 99.
* The term qaryah has here, as so often in classical Arabic, the connotation of “land,” in this instance comprising the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah.