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And when Our messengers (rusul) came to Lot, he was distressed on their account, he was grieved because of them, and he was constrained [unable] to help them, because they had handsome faces, dressed as guests, and thus he feared for them from his people. So they informed him that they were the messengers (rusul) of his Rabb. But they said, 'Do not be afraid, nor grieve. We shall surely deliver you (read munajjūka or munjūka) and your family, except your wife: she is of those who will remain behind (ahlaka, 'your family', is in the accusative as a supplement to the [suffixed direct object pronoun] kāf [of munajjūka, 'We shall surely deliver you']).