73قالوا أَتَعجَبينَ مِن أَمرِ اللَّهِ ۖ رَحمَتُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ عَلَيكُم أَهلَ البَيتِ ۚ إِنَّهُ حَميدٌ مَجيدٌMuhammad AsadAnswered [the messengers]: "Dost thou deem it strange that God should decree what He wills?1 The grace of God and His blessings be upon you, O people of this house! Verily, ever to be praised, sublime is He!"Lit., "Art thou astonished at God's decree"" - or: "dost thou find God's decree sstrange?" However, the real meaning of this rhetorical question can only be brought out by paraphrasing it in the manner attempted by me: namely, as an echo of the statement, repeated several times in the Qur'an: "When God wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, 'Be'- and it is."