So now listen to some of the secrets (1) contained in these verses.

How many different kinds (2) of praise for Abraham do they embody?

How do they gather the etiquettes (3) of hospitality and its due rights?

How, then, should the guest (4) be honored?

What refutation do they provide for the people of falsehood—the philosophers and the deniers of the divine attributes?

How do they contain a mighty sign of prophethood (5)?

How do they encompass every attribute of perfection whose ultimate source (6) is knowledge and wisdom?

How do they hint, with the subtlest (7) and clearest indication, at the possibility of resurrection, and then state its certainty outright?

And how do they report the Lord’s justice and His retribution against the nations that rejected the truth?