The Almighty Allah granted Prophet Lut's prayers and He deputed His angels to chastise the stubborn people. Prophet Lut then raised his arms high in the air in invoking Allah to send down upon them His torment. They had become like malignant tumour in the society and just as an organ suffering from malignancy needed amputation from the body they deserved extermination from the society. Prophet Lut became extremely disappointed with the insolent behaviour of the people and he realized that they were the group of misguided fools and it was not appropriate to pursue with them anymore. The condemned people as they were, they unabashedly taunted Prophet Lut to let the Divine curse befall them as they did not care at all about it. But Prophet Lut increased his efforts to bring them to the right path and warned them that the Wrath of Allah would some day overtake them without prior notice. When they saw that Prophet Lut was frequently interfering with their affairs they decided to expel him and his handful of followers from the town. Only a handful of people who could be counted on finger tips received the guidance while the rest of them remained disgustingly mean with lewd deeds. "Casting pearls before swines".Ībout thirty years of Prophet Lut's teachings and guidance yielded no tangible result. But they had gone to the extreme of moral degradation so much so that Prophet Lut's preachings had no effect on them. He did his utmost to guide his people to give up their abominable habits and perform noble deeds. The Almighty Allah sent Prophet Lut to them for their guidance. Besides, they committed all sorts of wanton and lewd acts including merry-making, singing, gambling and throwing of filth on passers by. One of such despicable acts was that they openly indulged in sodomy. Thus the people of Prophet Lut were guilty of such abominable sins the example of which was never heard before. At this he said to the judge, "You should pay this man whatever is due to me for the trouble I took for your sake". When the slave saw this high-handedness and the gross injustice, he hit the judge with a stone and his head also started bleeding. The judge decreed against the slave and asked him to pay the man for the trouble he took for him. The matter was referred to the court of law. The slave refused to pay anything to the man. That man then grabbed his collar and said, "If this blood had remained inside your body it would have been harmful to you and, therefore, you should pay me for doing you this favour. When this slave reached there a man struck him in his head with a stone and it started bleeding. Prophet Ibrahim's wife, Sarah sent her slave to the district of Sadum to report about the welfare of Prophet Lut. The following narration is quoted from an Egyptian author and it tells us how mean these people were. If any traveller passed by the town, these people used to come one by one and robbed him of his property and merchandise and made him go as a pauper. The people of this district were indecent and lustful as they indulged in abominable and immoral things. Therefore, with the permission of Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Lut migrated to a place in the district of Sadum in Jordan and settled there. There they needed more space because of the abundance of their cattle and personal belongings. Afterwards, they moved from Egypt to Baytul Maqdis in Palestine and settled there. Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Lut grew rich in Egypt and they possessed enough livestock and wealth. He embraced the faith of Prophet Ibrahim and migrated from Babylon with him. Prophet Lut was the nephew of Prophet Ibrahim. His people had no answer to his remarks but they told one another, "Expel him from our town, he and his people profess to be pure " We saved Lut and his family except his wife who was one ' of those who stayed behind. Indeed you are a people who are guilty of excess. And We sent Lut who said to his people: 'Why do you commit such indecent acts that have never been committed by anyone before? In preference to women you satisfy your lust with men.
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