Verily in it is Lot. They replied, We know best who is in it. And when their dispute had become tedious, they said_, O Abraham, abstain from this _disputation_; for the command of thy Lord hath come _for their destruction_, and a punishment not [to be] averted is coming upon them. (xi. 72-78.) And when Our decree for _the destruction of the people of Lot_ came [to be executed], We turned them (_that is, their cities_) upside-down; _for Gabriel raised them to heaven, and let them fall upside-down to the earth_;[213] and We rained upon them stones of baked clay, sent one after another, marked with thy Lord, _each with the name of him upon whom it should be cast_: and they [are] not far distant from the offenders; _that is, the stones are not, or the cities of the people of Lot were not, far distant from the people of Mekkeh_. (xi. 84.) And [Abraham] said [after his escape from Nimrod], Verily I am going unto my Lord, who will direct me _unto the place whither He hath commanded me to go, namely, Syria. And when he had arrived at the Holy Land, he said_, O my Lord, give me _a son_ [who shall be one] of the righteous. Whereupon We gave him the glad tidings of a mild youth. And when he had attained to the age when he could work with him (_as some say, seven years; and some, thirteen_), he said, O my child, verily I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice thee (_and the dreams of prophets are true; and their actions, by the command of God_); therefore consider what thou seest advisable _for me to do_. He replied, O my father, do what thou art commanded: thou shalt find me, if God please, [of the number] of the patient. And when they had resigned themselves, and he had laid him down on his temple, _in_ [the valley of] _Mind, and had drawn the knife across his throat_ (_but it produced no effect, by reason of an obstacle interposed by the divine power_), We called unto him, O Abraham, thou hast verified the vision. Verily thus do We reward the well-doers. Verily this was the manifest trial. And We ransomed him _whom he had been commanded to sacrifice_ (_and he was Ishmȧel_ [Ismá´eel] _or Isaac; for there are two opinions_)[214] with an excellent victim, _a ram from Paradise, the same that Abel had offered: Gabriel_ (_on whom be peace!_) _brought it, and the lord Abraham sacrificed it, saying, God is most great!_ And We left _this salutation_ [to be bestowed] on him by the latter generations, Peace [be] on Abraham! Thus do We reward the well-doers: for he was of our believing servants. (xxxvii. 97-111.)