وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الْحُبُكِ
7. By the heaven containing pathways,
فَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةً ۖ قَالُوا لَا تَخَفْ ۖ وَبَشَّرُوهُ بِغُلَامٍ عَلِيمٍ
28. And he felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not," and gave him good tidings of a learned boy.
فَأَقْبَلَتِ امْرَأَتُهُ فِي صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ
29. And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"
قَالُوا كَذَٰلِكِ قَالَ رَبُّكِ ۖ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْحَكِيمُ الْعَلِيمُ
30. They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."
قَالُوا إِنَّا أُرْسِلْنَا إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُجْرِمِينَ
32. They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals
لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِنْ طِينٍ
33. To send down upon them stones of clay,
مُسَوَّمَةً عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ
34. Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."
فَأَخْرَجْنَا مَنْ كَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
35. So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers.
فَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهَا غَيْرَ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ
36. And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.
وَتَرَكْنَا فِيهَا آيَةً لِلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ الْعَذَابَ الْأَلِيمَ
37. And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.
