Surah Al-Hijr – Verses 55 - 56 قَالُوا بَشَّرْنَاكَ...
Surah Al-Hijr – Verses 55 - 56 قَالُوا بَشَّرْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ فَلاَ تَكُن مّـِنَ الْقَانِطِينَ قَالَ وَمَن يَقْنَطُ مِن رَّحْمَةِ رَبّـِهِ إِلاَّ الضَّآلُّونَ 55. “They (the guests) said: ‘We give you good news of the Truth. Therefore, be you not of the despairing ones’.” 56. “He said: ‘And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord save those who are astray?’” Let us take didactic lessons, sweet and bitter ones, from history.
The best histories are the ones which concern the life of the prophets (as) and the best historians are the prophets themselves. Sometimes the angels appear in the form of human beings by the Divine Will and get in touch with man, among which one may refer to this very story of Hadrat Abraham (as) in which the angels felt that Abraham became scared. Therefore, the angels did not give any…
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