Prophet Lut (AS) – Standing Against Immorality حضرت لوط علیہ السلام – بے حیائی کے خلاف آواز

Lut (AS) believed in the message of Ibrahim (AS) and migrated with him (Quran 29:26); commentators mention that he was Ibrahim's nephew. Allah sent him as a messenger to a people living in towns near the Dead Sea, commonly identified as Sodom and its neighbouring towns.

These people had invented an immorality that no one in the world had committed before them: men approached men with desire instead of women (Quran 7:80-81). They also robbed travellers on the highway and openly committed evil in their gatherings (Quran 29:29). Lut (AS) warned them, called them to fear Allah, told them he asked no reward, and reminded them of the spouses Allah had created for them (Quran 26:161-166). Their only answer was to threaten to drive him and his family out of the town, mocking them as people who wanted to keep themselves pure (Quran 7:82; 27:56).

Angels first came to Ibrahim (AS) with glad tidings and told him they had been sent to the people of Lut. Ibrahim, being forbearing and compassionate, pleaded on their behalf, but he was told that his Lord's command had come (Quran 11:74-76; 29:31-32).

The angels then came to Lut in the form of men, and he was distressed for them, knowing his people (Quran 11:77). His people came rushing to his house. Lut pleaded with them, pointing to 'my daughters' as purer for them; many commentators explain this as the women of the nation through lawful marriage, since a prophet is like a father to his people. He begged them not to disgrace him before his guests and asked whether there was not a single right-minded man among them (Quran 11:78-79). When they refused, the angels revealed that they were messengers of his Lord and that the people would never reach him. They told him to leave with his family in the last part of the night, with none of them looking back, except his wife, who would be struck by what struck the others; their appointed time was the morning (Quran 11:81).

When the command came, Allah turned the towns upside down and rained upon them stones of baked clay, layer upon layer, each marked by his Lord (Quran 11:82-83). Allah saved Lut and his family except his wife, who stayed behind (Quran 7:83). The Quran gives his wife, along with the wife of Nuh, as an example: both were married to righteous servants of Allah but betrayed them in faith, and their relationship did not help them at all (Quran 66:10).

Allah left the ruins as a clear sign for people who use their reason (Quran 29:35), and reminded the Arabs who passed by them morning and evening to reflect (Quran 37:133-138).