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Surah 51. Az-Zariyat, Ayah 29

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فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ
Faaqbalati imraatuhu fee s arratin fa s akkat wajhah a waq a lat AAajoozun AAaqeem un
Thereupon his wife approached [the guests] with a loud cry, and struck her face [in astonishment] and exclaimed: "A barren old woman [like me]!"
  - Mohammad Asad
Hearing this his wife came forward, with astonishment she smote her forehead and said: "A son to a barren old woman!"
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Then his wife came forward with a cry, clasping her forehead 'in astonishment', exclaiming, ''A baby from' a barren, old woman!'
  - Mustafa Khattab
Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried: A barren old woman!
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But his wife came forward (laughing) aloud: she smote her forehead and said: "a barren old woman!" 5009
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Abraham's wife Sarah was old and barren. This news seemed to her too good to be true. She came forward, clamoured (xi. 71), struck her forehead with her hands, indicative of her amusement and incredulity as "a barren old woman": xi. 72.

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