You are not the center of everything, even if you were Ibrahim (Abraham)

You are not the center of everything going around you. Even if you were Abraham!!!

Read the following (in 3 different interpretations, quite close. The 3rd one is easier to read)

051.024
YUSUFALI: Has the story reached thee, of the honoured guests of Abraham?
PICKTHAL: Hath the story of Abraham's honoured guests reached thee (O Muhammad)?
SHAKIR: Has there come to you information about the honored guests of Ibrahim?

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YUSUFALI: Behold, they entered his presence, and said: "Peace!" He said, "Peace!" (and thought, "These seem) unusual people."
PICKTHAL: When they came in unto him and said: Peace! he answered, Peace! (and thought): Folk unknown (to me).
SHAKIR: When they entered upon him, they said: Peace. Peace, said he, a strange people.

051.026
YUSUFALI: Then he turned quickly to his household, brought out a fatted calf,
PICKTHAL: Then he went apart unto his housefolk so that they brought a fatted calf;
SHAKIR: Then he turned aside to his family secretly and brought a fat (roasted) calf,

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YUSUFALI: And placed it before them.. he said, "Will ye not eat?"
PICKTHAL: And he set it before them, saying: Will ye not eat?
SHAKIR: So he brought it near them. He said: What! will you not eat?

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YUSUFALI: (When they did not eat), He conceived a fear of them. They said, "Fear not," and they gave him glad tidings of a son endowed with knowledge.
PICKTHAL: Then he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! and gave him tidings of (the birth of) a wise son.
SHAKIR: So he conceived in his mind a fear on account of them. They said: Fear not. And they gave him the good news of a boy possessing knowledge.

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YUSUFALI: But his wife came forward (laughing) aloud: she smote her forehead and said: "A barren old woman!"
PICKTHAL: Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried: A barren old woman!
SHAKIR: Then his wife came up in great grief, and she struck her face and said: An old barren woman!

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YUSUFALI: They said, "Even so has thy Lord spoken: and He is full of Wisdom and Knowledge."
PICKTHAL: They said: Even so saith thy Lord. Lo! He is the Wise, the Knower.
SHAKIR: They said: Thus says your Lord: Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing.

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YUSUFALI: (Abraham) said: "And what, O ye Messengers, is your errand (now)?"
PICKTHAL: (Abraham) said: And (afterward) what is your errand, O ye sent (from Allah)?
SHAKIR: He said: What is your affair then, O messengers!

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YUSUFALI: They said, "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin;-
PICKTHAL: They said: Lo! we are sent unto a guilty folk,
SHAKIR: They said: Surely we are sent to a guilty people,

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YUSUFALI: "To bring on, on them, (a shower of) stones of clay (brimstone),
PICKTHAL: That we may send upon them stones of clay,
SHAKIR: That we may send down upon them stone of clay,

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YUSUFALI: "Marked as from thy Lord for those who trespass beyond bounds."
PICKTHAL: Marked by thy Lord for (the destruction of) the wanton.
SHAKIR: Sent forth from your Lord for the extravagant.

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YUSUFALI: Then We evacuated those of the Believers who were there,
PICKTHAL: Then we brought forth such believers as were there.
SHAKIR: Then We brought forth such as were therein of the believers.

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YUSUFALI: But We found not there any just (Muslim) persons except in one house:
PICKTHAL: But We found there but one house of those surrendered (to Allah).
SHAKIR: But We did not find therein save a (single) house of those who submitted (the Muslims).

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YUSUFALI: And We left there a Sign for such as fear the Grievous Penalty.
PICKTHAL: And We left behind therein a portent for those who fear a painful doom.
SHAKIR: And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.



When the messengers came to Ibrahim, they told him a piece of news he was longing for, you are going to have a child. Although this was immensely important news (to him), he followed receiving this announcement with a question: So, what is behind the visit? (51:31) He didn't assume they come just for him. So should not you. Keep looking at the bigger picture... Life is never about a single person.