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15:57

قَالَ فَمَا خَطۡبُكُمۡ أَيُّهَا ٱلۡمُرۡسَلُونَ

Qala fama khatbukum ayyuha almursaloona

[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"

Word by word
  1. قَالَHe said
  2. فَمَاThen what
  3. خَطۡبُكُمۡ(is) your business
  4. أَيُّهَاO messengers
  5. ٱلۡمُرۡسَلُونَO messengers
Al-Hijr · 15:57Makkah

After the good news, he asked what else.

Ibrahim senses a larger mission

His question
Ibrahimcalmed down
asks
your business?O messengers
Good news and the bigger picture
it is all about memy good news
there is moreothers are involved

Ibn Kathir says after Ibrahim had calmed down from the excitement of this good news, he started to ask them why they had come. Angels do not travel for one message. He sensed something larger.

You get the promotion and start celebrating. Then you notice your colleague who was let go the same week. Your good news is real. Asking what else is happening around you is how a good heart works.

When good things happen to me, that is the whole story.

My blessing sits inside a bigger picture that includes other people.

Try this

On your next good day, check on one person who might be having a hard one.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

He said: "What then is the business for which you have come, O messengers? (57)They said: "We have been sent to a guilty people. (58)"(All) except the family of Lut, all of whom we are to save (from the destruction). (59)"Except for his wife, of whom We have decreed that she shall be of those who remain behind. (60)

The Reason why the Angels came

Allah tells us that after Ibrahim had calmed down from the excitement of this good news, he started to ask them why they had come to him. They said,

إِنَّا أُرْسِلْنَا إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُّجْرِمِينَ

(We have been sent to a guilty people.) meaning the people of Lut. They told him that they were going to save the family of Lut from among those people, except for his wife, because she was one of those who were doomed. Thus it was said,

إِلَّا امْرَأَتَهُ قَدَّرْنَا ۙ إِنَّهَا لَمِنَ الْغَابِرِينَ

(Except for his wife, of whom We have decreed that she shall be of those who remain behind.) i.e., she was one of those who would be left behind and will be destroyed.