The Holy Quran 7:80 — Surah Al-A'raf

Arabic text

وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَـٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ

Translation

We sent Loot عليه الصلاة والسلام (as a Messenger and) he told his people, "Do you commit such a terrible (shameful) act (of homosexuality) that none in the universe (neither man nor Jinn) had ever committed before you?"

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Lut ﵇: Lut ﵇ was the nephew of Ibrahim ﵇, the Friend of Allah (Khalil Allah). He emigrated with him from Iraq to the land of Sham (Syria) and was sent by Allah to Sodom and the surrounding towns, to reform them and restrain them from the filthy, unnatural and shameless deeds in which the people there were immersed.

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