![]() ![]() Lot was filled with turmoil he wanted to convince his guests without offending them, not to spend the night there, yet at the same time he wanted to extend to them the expected hospitality normally accorded to guests. He started talking with them and impressed upon them the subject of his people’s nature. Instead they asked if he could host them. ![]() He asked them where they came from and where they were going. Lot felt distressed as he quickly ran to his guests. “You are wanted by young men at the town gate and I have never before seen the like of their faces!” Remembering the character of her people she replied, “Stay here and do not enter until I inform my father and return.” Leaving her jug by the river, she swiftly ran home. One of the tree men (angels) asked her: “O maiden, is there a place to rest?” When she lifted her face and saw them, she was stunned that there could be men of such magnificent beauty on earth. The first person who caught sight of them was Lot’s daughter, who was sitting beside the river, filling her jug with water. They reached the walls of the town in the afternoon. Therefore, the angels left Abraham (pbuh) and headed for Sodom the town of Lut (pbuh). Overwhelmed with despair, Lot prayed to Allah to grant him victory and destroy the corrupt. “Bring Allah’s Torment upon us if you are one of the truthful!” (Ch 29:29 Quran). Instead, they belittled his message and mockingly challenged him: The years rolled by, and still not one believed in him. His life was continuous torture and he suffered greatly, but he remained patient and steadfast with his people. If home is the place of comfort and rest, then Lut found none, for he was tormented both inside and outside his home. They were under two of Our righteous slaves, but they both betrayed their (husbands, by rejecting their doctrines) so they (Noah & Lut) benefited them (their respective wives) not, against Allah, and it was said: “Enter the Fire along with those who enter!” (Ch 66:10 Quran) “Allah set forth an example for those who disbelieve, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. ![]() Lot’s wife, like Noah’s wife, a disbeliever. No one responded to his call and believed except for the members of his family, and even in his household, not all the members believed. As the years passed, he persisted in his mission but to no avail. Their unwholesome reputation spread throughout the land, while he struggled against them. The doings of Lot’s people saddened his heart. ![]()
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