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English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ^ra

But when he saw their hands not reaching thereto, he knew not what they were, and conceived a fear of them. They said, ‘Fear not, for we have been sent to the people of Lot.’

اردو ترجمہ مرزا طاہر احمد خلیفة المسیح الرابعؒ

پھر جب اس نے دیکھا کہ ان کے ہاتھ اُس (کھانے) کی طرف بڑھ نہیں رہے تو اس نے انہیں غیر سمجھا اور ان سے ایک خوف سا محسوس کیا۔ انہوں نے کہا خوف نہ کر۔ یقیناً ہمیں قومِ لوط کی طرف بھیجا گیا ہے۔

French

Mais quand il vit qu’ils ne tendaient pas la main pour en prendre, il les prit pour des étrangers inamicaux, et se laissa envahir par une peur d’eux. Ils dirent : « N’aie pas peur, car nous avons été envoyés au peuple de Lot. »

German

Doch als er sah, dass ihre Hände sich nicht danach ausstreckten, hielt er sie für unfreundliche Fremde und empfand Furcht vor ihnen. Sie sprachen: "Fürchte dich nicht, denn siehe, wir sind zum Volke Lots entsandt."

Chinese

[a]当他看他们不伸手取饭, 他认为他们是外地人, 对他们感到惧怕。他们说: “不要害怕, 我们是被派到鲁特[621] 的族人那里去的。”

Italian

Ma quando vide che le loro mani non lo avvicinavano, li prese per estranei ostili ed ebbe paura di loro. Ma essi dissero: «Non temere, perché siamo stati mandati presso il popolo di Lot.»

Spanish

Pero cuando vio que sus manos no se acercaban a él, los tomó por extraños poco amistosos y sintió temor ante ellos. Dijeron: “No temas, porque hemos sido enviados a las gentes de Lot”.

اردو تفسیرِ صغیر

پس جب اس نے ان کے ہاتھوں کو دیکھا کہ اس (کھانے) تک نہیں پہنچتے تو (اس نے) ان کے (اس) فعل کو غیر معمولی[3] سمجھا اور اس (فعل) سے خطرہ محسوس[4] کیا۔ (اس پر) انہوں نے کہا (کہ) تو خوف نہ کر۔ ہمیں تو لوط کی قوم کی طرف بھیجا گیا ہے۔

English - Short Commentary Translation

But [a]when he saw their hands not reaching thereto, he considered this strange on their part and conceived fear of them. They said, ‘Fear not, for we have been sent to the people of Lot.’[1332]

English - Five Volume Translation

But [a]when he saw their hands not reaching thereto, he knew not what they were, and conceived a fear of them. They said, ‘Fear not, for we have been sent to the people of Lot.’[1451]

51:28-29.

Important Words:

لوط (Lot) may etymologically be taken to have been derived from لاط. They sayلاط الشیء i.e. he concealed the thing. لاط بهmeans, it (the thing) stuck or adhered to it. لوطه بالطیب (lawwata-hu) means, he smeared him or it with much perfume. The Prophet Lot, who was the contemporary of Prophet Abraham, was the ancestor of the Palestinian peoples, Moab and Ammon. As the son of Haran and the grandson of Terah, he was Abraham’s nephew. He joined Abraham in the land of Canaan and in the time of famine went with him to Egypt. He preached to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah but they refused to listen to him and ridiculed and persecuted him; and though Abraham, to whom Lot was a junior and subordinate Prophet prayed for these wicked people and interceded with God on their behalf, they were destroyed on account of their iniquities and transgression (Lane, Enc. Bri. & Jew. Enc.).

Commentary:

Abraham at first took the "messengers" to be ordinary way-farers, but when they refrained from eating of the roasted calf he had placed before them (see the preceding verse), he realized that they were on some special mission which he had failed to understand. He knew that as ordinary wayfarers they could not refuse his hospitality, for wayfarers in that arid land entirely depended on the hospitality of the inhabitants for their food.

The words, conceived a fear of them, do not mean that Abraham was afraid of the strangers but that, when they did not partake of the food, he feared that he might have done something against the etiquette of hospitality and thus had displeased them. He did not, however, express his fear, for such an expression would have implied that he perhaps took them to be mean and greedy. The guests, it appears, read Abraham’s perturbed state of mind from the uneasy expression of his face, so they at once removed his anxiety by telling him that they were in no way displeased and that the reason why they did not partake of food was that their dreadful mission had made them disinclined to eat.

This answer of the visitors also shows that they were not angels; for had they been angels, they would have said that being not human they could not partake of the food.

اردو ترجمہ مودودی

مگر جب دیکھا کہ ان کے ہاتھ کھانے پر نہیں بڑھتے تو وہ ان سے مشتبہ ہو گیا اور دل میں ان سے خوف محسوس کرنے لگا اُنہوں نے کہا "ڈرو نہیں، ہم تو لوطؑ کی قوم کی طرف بھیجے گئے ہیں"

English - Sahih

But when he saw their hands not reaching for it, he distrusted them and felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not. We have been sent to the people of Lot."

اردو ترجمہ احمد علی

پھر جب دیکھا کہ ان کے ہاتھ اس تک نہیں پہنچتے تو انہیں اجنبی سمجھا اوران سے ڈرا انہوں نے کہا خوف نہ کرو ہم تو لوط کی قوم کی طرف بھیجحے گئے ہیں

English - Talal Itani

But when he saw their hands not reaching to it, he felt unfamiliar of them and felt apprehension from them [a fear]. They said, "(Do) not fear. Indeed, we [we] have been sent to (the) people (of) Lut."

Chinese Commentary ^*

Cross Refs:

a

51:28, 29.

621

鲁特是巴勒斯坦两个民族, 莫阿布 (Moab) 和阿姆蒙 (Ammon) 的祖先。他是哈伦 (Haran) 的儿子和特拉 (Terah) 的孙子, 因此是伊布拉欣的侄子。他在迦南和伊布拉欣会合。

اردہ تفصیرِ صغیر نوٹس ^*

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یہاں نَکِرَھُمْ کے الفاظ ہیں جس کے معنے یہ بھی ہو سکتے ہیں کہ ان کو عجیب الحرکت انسان سمجھا۔ مگر ھُمْ سے پہلے مضاف حذف نکالا جائے تو اس کے یہ معنے ہونگے کہ ان کے اس فعل کو عجیب سمجھا۔

4

کہ شاید کوئی بُری خبر لائے ہیں۔

English - Arberry

And when he saw their hands not reaching towards it, he was suspicious of them and conceived a fear of them. They said, 'Fear not; we have been sent to the people of Lot.'

English - Maududi

When he perceived that their hands could not reach it, he mistrusted them, and felt afraid of them. They said: 'Do not be afraid. We have been sent to the people of Lot.

English - Ahmed Ali

When they did not stretch their hands towards it he became suspicious and afraid of them. They said: "Do not be afraid. We have been sent to the people of Lot."

English - Yusuf Ali

But when he saw their hands went not towards the (meal), he felt some mistrust of them, and conceived a fear of them. They said: "Fear not: We have been sent against the people of Lut."

English - Five Volume Commentary ^*

Cross Refs:

a

51:28-29.

1451

Important Words:

لوط (Lot) may etymologically be taken to have been derived from لاط. They sayلاط الشیء i.e. he concealed the thing. لاط بهmeans, it (the thing) stuck or adhered to it. لوطه بالطیب (lawwata-hu) means, he smeared him or it with much perfume. The Prophet Lot, who was the contemporary of Prophet Abraham, was the ancestor of the Palestinian peoples, Moab and Ammon. As the son of Haran and the grandson of Terah, he was Abraham’s nephew. He joined Abraham in the land of Canaan and in the time of famine went with him to Egypt. He preached to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah but they refused to listen to him and ridiculed and persecuted him; and though Abraham, to whom Lot was a junior and subordinate Prophet prayed for these wicked people and interceded with God on their behalf, they were destroyed on account of their iniquities and transgression (Lane, Enc. Bri. & Jew. Enc.).

Commentary:

Abraham at first took the "messengers" to be ordinary way-farers, but when they refrained from eating of the roasted calf he had placed before them (see the preceding verse), he realized that they were on some special mission which he had failed to understand. He knew that as ordinary wayfarers they could not refuse his hospitality, for wayfarers in that arid land entirely depended on the hospitality of the inhabitants for their food.

The words, conceived a fear of them, do not mean that Abraham was afraid of the strangers but that, when they did not partake of the food, he feared that he might have done something against the etiquette of hospitality and thus had displeased them. He did not, however, express his fear, for such an expression would have implied that he perhaps took them to be mean and greedy. The guests, it appears, read Abraham’s perturbed state of mind from the uneasy expression of his face, so they at once removed his anxiety by telling him that they were in no way displeased and that the reason why they did not partake of food was that their dreadful mission had made them disinclined to eat.

This answer of the visitors also shows that they were not angels; for had they been angels, they would have said that being not human they could not partake of the food.

English - Short Commentary Notes ^*

Cross Refs:

a

51:28, 29.

1332

Abraham at first took the 'messengers' to be ordinary wayfarers, but when they refrained from eating of the roasted calf he realized that they were on some special mission which he had failed to understand. The words, conceived fear of them, do not mean that Abraham was afraid of the strangers but that, when they did not partake of the food, he feared that he might have done something against the etiquette of hospitality. The guests, it appears, read Abraham’s perturbed state of mind from the uneasy expression of his face, so they at once removed his anxiety by telling him that they were in no way displeased and that the reason why they did not partake of food was that their dreadful mission had made them disinclined to eat. This answer of the visitors also shows that they were not angels for had they been angels, they would have said that being not human they could not partake of food.

Lot was the ancestor of the Palestinian peoples, Moab and Ammon, and as the son of Haran and the grandson

English - Pickthall

And when he saw their hands reached not to it, he mistrusted them and conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! Lo! we are sent unto the folk of Lot.

English - Muhammad Ali ^ra

But when he saw that their hands reached not to it, he mistrusted them and conceived fear of them. They said: Fear not; we have been sent to Lot’s people.

English - Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan ^ra

When he perceived that they did not put forth their hands towards it, he was puzzled and conceived a fear of them. They tried to reassure him: Be not afraid, for we have been sent to the people of Lot.

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