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˹Later,˺ Abraham asked, “What is your mission, O  messenger-angels?”

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They replied, “We have actually been sent to a wicked people,

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to send upon them stones of ˹baked˺ clay,

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marked by your Lord for the transgressors.”

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Then ˹before the torment˺ We evacuated the believers from the city.

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But We only found one family that had submitted ˹to Allah˺.1

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And We have left a sign there1 ˹as a lesson˺ for those who fear the painful punishment.

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And in ˹the story of˺ Moses ˹was another lesson,˺ when We sent him to Pharaoh with compelling proof,

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but Pharaoh was carried away by his power, saying ˹of Moses˺, “A magician or a madman!”

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So We seized him and his soldiers, casting them into the sea while he was blameworthy.1 

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