29 Preface فَأَقبَلَتِ امرَأَتُهُ في صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّت وَجهَها وَقالَت عَجوزٌ عَقيمٌYusuf AliBut his wife came forward1 (laughing) aloud: she smote her forehead and said: “A barren old woman!” Abraham’s wife Sarah was old and barren. This news seemed to her too good to be true. She carne forward, laughed aloud (11:71), struck her forehead with her hands, indicative of her amusement and incredulity as “a barren old woman”: 11:72.