bout the honored guests of
Ibrahim?

051.025
Y: Behold, they entered his presence, and said: "Peace!" He said,
"Peace!" (and thought), "These seem unusual people."

P: When they came in unto him and said: Peace! he answered, Peace! (and
thought): Folk unknown (to me).

S: When they entered upon him, they said: Peace. Peace, said he, a
strange people.

051.026
Y: Then he turned quickly to his household, brought out a fatted calf,

P: Then he went apart unto his housefolk so that they brought a fatted
calf;

S: Then he turned aside to his family secretly and brought a fat
(roasted) calf,

051.027
Y: And placed it before them... He said, "Will ye not eat?"

P: And he set it before them, saying: Will ye not eat?

S: So he brought it near them. He said: What! will you not eat?

051.028
Y: (When they did not eat), He conceived a fear of them. They said,
"Fear not," and they gave him glad tidings of a son endowed with
knowledge.

P: Then he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! and gave him
tidings of (the birth of) a wise son.

S: So he conceived in his mind a fear on account of them. They said:
Fear not. And they gave him the good news of a boy possessing
knowledge.

051.029
Y: But his wife came forward (laughing) aloud: she smote her forehead
and said: "A barren old woman!"

P: Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and
cried: A barren old woman!

S: Then his wife came up in great grief, and she struck her face and
said: An old barren woman!

051.030
Y: They said, "Even so has thy Lord spoken: and He is full of Wisdom and
Knowledge."

P: They said: Even so saith thy Lord. Lo! He is the Wise, the Knower.

S: They said: Thus says your Lord: Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing.

051.031
Y: (Abraham) said: "And what, O ye Messengers, is your errand (now)?"

P: (Abraham) said: And (afterward) what is your errand, O ye sent (from
Allah)?

S: He said: What is your affair then, O messengers!

051.032
Y: They said, "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin;"-

P: They said: Lo! we are sent unto a guilty folk,

S: They said: Surely we are sent to a guilty people,

051.033
Y: "To bring on, on them, (a shower of) stones of clay (brimstone),"

P: That we may send upon them stones of clay,

S: That we may send down upon them stone of clay,

051.034
Y: "Marked as from thy Lord for those who trespass beyond bounds."

P: Marked by thy Lord for (the destruction o