\nProphet\nAbraham (PBUH) left Egypt accompanied by his nephew Lut (PBUH), who\nthen went to the city of Sodom (Sadum), which was on the western\nshore of the Dead Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThis\ncity was filled with evil. Its residents waylaid, robbed and killed\ntravelers. Another common evil among them was that men had sex with\nmen instead of with women. This unnatural act later became known as\nsodomy (after the city of Sodom). It was practiced openly and\nunashamedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt\nwas at the height of these crimes and sins that Allah revealed to\nProphet Lut (PBUH) that he should summon the people to give up their\nindecent behavior, but they were so deeply sunk in their immoral\nhabits that they were deaf to Lot’s preaching. Swamped in their\nunnatural desires, they refused to listen, even when Lot warned them\nof Allah’s punishment. Instead, they threatened to drive him out of\nthe city if he kept on preaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAllah\nthe Almighty revealed:\nThe people of Lot (those dwelt in the towns of Sodom in Palestine)\nbelied the Messengers when their brother Lot said to them: “Will\nyou not fear Allah and obey Him? Verily! I am a trustworthy Messenger\nto you. SO fear Allah, keep your duty to Him, and obey me. No reward\ndo I ask of you for it (my Message of Islamic Monotheism) my reward\nis only from the Lord of the Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that\nexists). Go you in unto the males of the Alamin (mankind), and leave\nthose whom Allah has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a\ntrespassing people!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThey\nsaid: “If you cease not, O Lot! Verily, you will be one of those\nwho are driven out!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHE\nsaid: “I am indeed, of those who disapprove with severe anger\nand fury your (this evil) action (of sodomy). My Lord! Save me and my\nfamily from what they do.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nSO\nWe saved him and his family, all except an old woman (this wife)\namong those who remained behind.<\/em>\n(Ch 26:160-171 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\ndoings of Lot’s people saddened his heart. Their unwholesome\nreputation spread throughout the land, while he struggled against\nthem. As the years passed, he persisted in his mission but to no\navail. No one responded to his call and believed except for the\nmembers of his family, and even in his household, not all the members\nbelieved. Lot’s wife, like Noah’s wife, a disbeliever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nthe Almighty declared:\nAllah set forth an example for those who disbelieve, the wife of Noah\nand the wife of Lot. They were under two of Our righteous slaves, but\nthey both betrayed their (husbands, by rejecting their doctrines) so\nthey (Noah & Lut) benefited them (their respective wives) not,\nagainst Allah, and it was said: “Enter the Fire along with those\nwho enter!” <\/em>(Ch\n66:10 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIf\nhome is the place of comfort and rest, then Lut found none, for he\nwas tormented both inside and outside his home. His life was\ncontinuous torture and he suffered greatly, but he remained patient\nand steadfast with his people. The years rolled by, and still not one\nbelieved in him. Instead, they belittled his message and mockingly\nchallenged him:\n“Bring Allah’s Torment upon us if you are one of the truthful!”<\/em>\n(Ch 29:29 Quran).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nOverwhelmed\nwith despair, Lot prayed to Allah to grant him victory and destroy\nthe corrupt. Therefore, the angels left Abraham (pbuh) and headed for\nSodom the town of Lut (pbuh). They reached the walls of the town in\nthe afternoon. The first person who caught sight of them was Lot’s\ndaughter, who was sitting beside the river, filling her jug with\nwater. When she lifted her face and saw them, she was stunned that\nthere could be men of such magnificent beauty on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nOne\nof the tree men (angels) asked her: “O maiden, is there a place\nto rest?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nRemembering\nthe character of her people she replied, “Stay here and do not\nenter until I inform my father and return.” Leaving her jug by\nthe river, she swiftly ran home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“O\nfather!” she cried. “You are wanted by young men at the\ntown gate and I have never before seen the like of their faces!”\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nLot\nfelt distressed as he quickly ran to his guests. He asked them where\nthey came from and where they were going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThey\ndid not answer his questions. Instead they asked if he could host\nthem. He started talking with them and impressed upon them the\nsubject of his people’s nature. Lot was filled with turmoil; he\nwanted to convince his guests without offending them, not to spend\nthe night there, yet at the same time he wanted to extend to them the\nexpected hospitality normally accorded to guests. In vain he tried to\nmake them understand the perilous situation. At last, therefore, he\nrequested them to wait until the night fell, for then no one would\nsee them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nWhen\ndarkness fell on the town, Lot escorted his guest to his home. No one\nwas aware of their presence. However, as soon as Lot’s wife saw them,\nshe slipped out of the house quietly so that no one noticed her.\nQuickly, she ran to her people with the news and it spread to all the\ninhabitants like wildfire. The people rushed towards Lot quickly and\nexcitedly. Lot was surprised by their discovery of his guests. and he\nwondered who could have informed them. The matter became clear,\nhowever, when he could not find his wife, anywhere, thus adding grief\nto his sorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nWhen\nLot saw the mob approaching his house, he shut the door, but they\nkept on banging on it. He pleaded with them to leave the visitors\nalone and fear Allah’s punishment. He urged them to seek sexual\nfulfillment with their wives, for that is what Allah had made lawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nLot’s\npeople waited until he had finished his short sermon, and then they\nroared with laughter. Blinded by passion, they broke down the door.\nLot became very angry, but he stood powerless before these violent\npeople. He was unable to prevent the abuse of his guests, but he\nfirmly stood his ground and continued to plead with the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAt\nthat terrible moment, he wished he had the power to push them away\nfrom his guests. Seeing him in a state of helplessness, and grief the\nguests said: “Do not be anxious or frightened, Lot for we are\nangels, and these people will not harm you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nOn\nhearing this, the mob was terrified and fled from Lot’s house,\nhurling threats at him as they left. The angels warned Prophet Lut\n(pbuh) to leave his house before sunrise, taking with him all his\nfamily except his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nhad decreed that the city of Sodom should perish. AN earthquake\nrocked the town. IT was as if a mighty power had lifted the entire\ncity and flung it down in one jolt. A storm of stones rained on the\ncity. Everyone and everything was destroyed, including Lot’s wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nthe Almighty recounted this story:\nAnd tell them about the guests (angels) of Abraham. When they entered\nunto him, and said: “Salaaman (peace)!” Abraham said:\n“Indeed! We are afraid of you.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThey\n(the angels) said: “Do not be afraid! We give you glad tidings\nof a boy (son) possessing much knowledge and wisdom.” (Abraham)\nsaid: “Do you give me glad tidings (of a son) when old age has\novertaken me? Of what then is your news?” They (the angels)\nsaid: “We give you glad tidings in truth. SO be not of the\ndespairing.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAbraham\nsaid: “And who despairs of the Mercy of his Lord except those\nwho are astray?” (Abraham again) said: “What then is the\nbusiness on which you have come, O Messengers?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThey\n(the angels) said: “We have been sent to a people who are\nMujrimeen (criminals, disbeliveers, polytheists, sinners). (All)\nexcept the family of Lot. Them all we are surely going to save (from\ndestruction).”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nExcept\nhis wife, of whom We have decreed that she shall be of the those who\nremain behind (she will be destroyed).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThen\nwhen the Messengers (the angels) came unto the family of Lot, he\nsaid: “Verily! You are people unknown to me.” They said:\n“Nay! we have come to you with that (torment) which they have\nbeen doubting. And we have brought to you the truth (the news of the\ndestruction of your nation) and certainly, we tell the truth. Then\ntravel in a part of the night with your family, and you go behind\nthem in the rear, and let no one amongst you look back, but go on to\nwhere you are ordered.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAnd\nWe made known this decree to him, that the root of those (sinners)\nwas to be cut off in the early morning<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\ninhabitants of the city came rejoicing (at the news of the young\nmen’s arrival). Lot said: “Verily! These are my guests, so shame\nme not. And fear Allah and disgrace me not.” They (people of the\ncity) said: “Did we not forbid you to entertain (or protect) any\nof the Alamin (people, foreigners strangers etc) from us?” Lot\nsaid: “These (the girls of the nation) are my daughters to marry\nlawfully) if you must act so.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nVerily,\nby your life (O Muhammad), in their wild intoxication they were\nwandering blindly. So As Saliha (torment, awful cry etc) overtook\nthem at the time of sunrise; and We turned (the towns of Sodom in\nPalestine) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.\nSurely! In this are signs for those who see (or understand or learn\nthe lessons from the Signs of Allah). And verily! They (the cities)\nare right on the highroad (from Mecca to Syria, i.e. the place where\nthe Dead Sea is now). Surely! Therein is indeed a sign for the\nbelievers.”<\/em>\n(Ch 15:51-77 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nthe Exalted also declared:\nSo we saved him and his family, all, except an old woman (his wife)\namong those who remained behind. Then afterward We destroyed the\nothers. We rained on them a rain of torment. How evil was the rain of\nthose who had been warned. Verily, in this is indeed a sign yet most\nof them are not believers. Verily! Your Lord, He is indeed the All\nMighty, the Most Merciful. <\/em>(Ch\n26:170-175 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nbook was closed on the people of Lot (pbuh). Their towns and names\nhave been erased from the face of the earth. Gone are they from\nmemory. One book was closed of the books of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nLot\n(pbuh) proceeded towards Abraham (pbuh). HE visited him, and when he\nrecounted the story of his people, he was surprised to learn that\nAbraham (pbuh) already knew. So Lut (pbuh) continued to invite people\nto Allah, as did Abraham (pbuh), the patient one who turned to Allah\nrepentantly, and the two held firm to their mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prophet Abraham (PBUH) left Egypt accompanied by his nephew Lut (PBUH), who then went to the city of Sodom (Sadum), which was on the western shore of the Dead Sea. This city was filled with evil. Its residents waylaid, robbed and killed travelers. 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