Then the noble guests...
They definitely included Jibril, Michail, and the Angel of Death as well.
But a group of angels comes to visit Ibrahim a.s.
They don't announce themselves.
They don't say that they are angels...
but just appear to be strangers walking through, wayfarers.
Ibrahim greets them enthusiastically: Come on in, have a seat!
He goes to Sarah: We've got guests!
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And they gave him the glad tidings...
of a knowledgeable young son [Isaak].
This old man and his old wife.
Now Sarah is listening from the other room.
Because she's getting scared too.
She comes in hysterically, slapping her face.
What are you talking about? He is old and I am old.
He can't have kids and I can't have kids.
How is this happening?
Now, Jibril is the one who is speaking now.
And he, as always, answers with one word first:
Look, it's just like that.
That is how the angels are raised.
They don't ask these kind of questions.
How is this happening? Allah decided that is is going to happen.
It's just going to happen.
Just like that.
Your Lord is most wise and most knowledgeable.
For Sarah was questioning God's wisdom: why nów?
Look, that is the way it goes.
Now notice, Ibrahim a.s. isn't doing anything.
He is watching his wife argue.
Ibrahim is calm.
And how calm is he?
He notices something...
that you wouldn't notice in a moment of shock like that.
He says: That's nice, but what are you angels really up to?
Because Ibrahim recognizes, if this was a glad tiding of a child...
there would have just been Jibril, what's the Angel fo Death doing here...
What are the other angels doing here...
It is said, that was because Ibrahim was úsed to strange things happening.
Ibrahim has been thrown into a fire and it didn't burn him, right.
He was to slaughter his son, and his son turned into a ram.
He had seen so much in his life, that he has this trust in Allah.
That, you know what, it is what it is, alhamdulillah, and he was used to it.
So he simply says: what are you really up to?
And they said: we have been sent to a transgressing people.
We have been sent to the people of Lot [Sodom] a.s.
Lot, his nephew, the only one who believed in Ibrahim a.s.
Lot supported Ibrahim very early on.
And he grew in his own ambitions.
He went out to do da'wah in another town nearby.
So when Ibrahim heard that they were sent to the people of Lot...
what did he do? He forgets about the child...
he starts arguing with the angels on behalf of Lot.
And they said: Look, we now Lot is there.
We know the believers are there.
They are going to be fine.
It is those that have transgressed...
and those that have oppressed.
Notice...
that on the way to destroy a nation...
they just gave the glad tidings to Ibrahim a.s....
of a child that is going to produce nátions...
one of the largest nations on earth: Bene Israel.
A nation of prophets, of anbiya, and so on...
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