Indeed, you approach men and obstruct the road and commit in your meetings evil.” And the answer of his people was not but they said, “Bring us the punishment of Allah, if you should be of the truthful.” (Qur’an 29-28-29) “Indeed, you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds. The people simply replied with the same words as before, asking to drive Lut AS and his family out.īut ignoring their enmity and threats, Lut AS faithfully continued to preach and warn, reiterating his message, emphasizing the error and ingratitude of turning away from the souses whom Allah had granted for the natural fulfillment of their needs.Ĭontinuing to preach despite his people’s hostility and threats, he then enumerated the entire catalogue of their misdeeds, saying, Lut’s AS admonition became stronger: “ Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds?” (Qur’an 7:80), he asked. Indeed, they are people who keep themselves pure.” (Qur’an 27:56)

My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.” (Qur’an 26:161-164)Īs if holding up a mirror in front of his people, Lut AS tried to make them look at the awfulness of their perverted habits and criminal behaviours.ĭo you commit immorality while you are seeing? Do you indeed approach men with desire instead of women? Rather, you are a people behaving ignorantly.” (Qur’an 27:54-55)īut the response of his people, already extraordinarily hardened and callous, was only that they said, And assuring his people of his absolute reliability, he added, “Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger. “Will you not fear Allah?” he said, appealing to them to reflect on their accountability to their Creator. As a result, Allah destroyed them by a severe punishment. But they ignored and rejected his appeal, and continued in their erroneous unnatural acts.

And he forbade them from their indecent practice and abhorring act. Lut AS called them to heed Allah’s command and to worship Him alone, without associating any partner with Him. And it was not only some or even a majority of Lut’s AS people who engaged in such practice rather it was the entire population.Īllah in His Mercy, caused Lut AS to settle among them so they might perhaps be guided. It is reported that these people would commit perverted deeds openly in their gatherings, and they cut the access of travellers to their roadways, robbing and killing them, after perhaps first forcing them engage in unnatural acts. Although they were guilty of many vices, one stands out glaringly among all the rest – homosexuality or sodomy – they were the first people in human history to practice homosexuality. The people of Sodom were of the most immoral and insolent nature. In the region where Lut AS settled, there were 5 cities, referred to in the Qur’an as Al-Mu’tafikat (Qur’an 9:70 53:53, 69:9), meaning “the Overturned Cities”. Sodom was the largest of these. It was the main city of that region with suburbs and satellite villages, prosperous and well-populated. Lut AS went to the city of Sodom after Ibrahim AS had asked him to do so. What is evident is that as some point after his settling, Allah appointed him as prophet to communities on the shore of what is now the Dead Sea, at a distance of 24 hours’ journey from Ibrahim’s AS home. Nothing authoritative is known of Lut’s AS earlier life. Lut AS, as you will recall, left Ur with Ibrahim AS and settled in Palestine. The story of his people and the punishment they were afflicted with was a shocking incident in the life of Ibrahim AS. Prophet Lut AS was the nephew of the Prophet Ibrahim AS.

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