The Holy Quran 7:84 — Surah Al-A'raf

Arabic text

وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّطَرًا ۖ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَـٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

Translation

We showered on them a (frightful) rain (a shower of stones). See what was the plight (end) of the sinners.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The punishment of the people of Lut ﵇: it is mentioned elsewhere that the towns were overturned and a rain of stones was poured down upon them. In the view of some imams, the punishment of a sodomite even today is that he be thrown down from a mountain or some other high place, stoned from above, and confined in an extremely foul-smelling, filthy place.

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