Verse. 1854

١٥ - ٱلْحِجْر

15 - Al-Hijr

اِذْ دَخَلُوْا عَلَيْہِ فَقَالُوْا سَلٰمًا۝۰ۭ قَالَ اِنَّا مِنْكُمْ وَجِلُوْنَ۝۵۲
Ith dakhaloo AAalayhi faqaloo salaman qala inna minkum wajiloona

English

Ahmed Ali

When they came to him and said: "Peace," he answered: "Truly we are afraid of you."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : ((how) when they came in unto him) unto abraham, (and said: peace) they greeted him. (he said) abraham said to them when they did not touch his food: (lo! we are afraid of you) we are scared of you.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : [how] when they entered unto him, and said, ‘peace!’, that is, [they said] this very word (salām). he, abraham, said, after having offered them food which they did not eat: ‘lo! we are afraid of you’.