The Spider
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE
[29:32]
[And when Abraham] exclaimed, "But Lot lives there!" – they answered: "We know fully well who is there; most certainly we shall save him and his household – all but his wife: she will indeed be among those that stay behind."


* v.32 : See note 66 on 7:83 and note 113 on 11:81. In the present instance, as well as in the next verse, the past-tense auxiliary verb kānat is meant to stress the inevitability of the future event referred to; hence, “she will indeed be...,” etc.