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Abuses of the People of Lūṭ
After some time, the depraved people encircled the magnificent
house of Sayyidunā Lūṭ
and started climbing
up the wall with lustful intent of committing sodomy with these
guests. Sayyidunā Lūṭ
admonished these
people earnestly, but they didn’t give up their awful intent.
Having seen him thoughtful and dejected, Sayyidunā Jibrāīl
said, ‘O the Prophet of Allah ! Do not be
dejected. We are angels and have descended with a divine
torment for these evil-doers. You take the true believers and
your family members with you and go far away from this town
before dawn. Be careful! That, no one should look back towards
the town otherwise he will also fall prey to that torment.’
Hence, Sayyidunā Lūṭ
went away from the
town with his households and the true believers. Then,
Sayyidunā Jibrāīl
soared towards the sky having
lifted all five towns of that city onto his wings. After reaching a
certain altitude, he
dropped those towns upside down
onto the earth. Then, stones rained so forcefully over them
that even their dead bodies got shattered.
Exactly at the time when this city was getting upside down,
one of the wives of Sayyidunā Lūṭ
whose
name was ‘Wā’ilaĥ’ and who was in fact a hypocrite and had
affection for evil-doers of the nation, looked back and uttered,
‘Ah, my people!’ Whilst she was standing after saying this, a
stone of the divine torment fell onto her also and she died. It’s
stated in verse number 83-84, Sūraĥ al-A’rāf, part 8:
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