{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/lot01.htm","path":"isl/pro/lot01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/lot01.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nSome\nFunny Stories\nThe people of Sodom\nwere people of evil and rudeness, and they had a judge that judges for\nthem always wether they were right or wrong as it is said, so then\nSarah the wife of Abraham sent a messenger to Sodom to see the\nconditions of Lot and his safety, and when he arrived there one man saw\nhim and came to him and hit him on his head with a stone so his blood\nwent out, then he hanged on him and said: this huge amount of blood if\nit was in your body any longer it would harm you so I wanted my fees!\nWhen the debate went for so long between them and the messenger of\nSarah could not get rid of that man he called him for a judgement, so\nthey went to the ruler of Sodom, and when he heard their story he\njudged for the the messenger to pay for the sodomite the fees, so when\nthe messenger of Sarah, Elazar, saw such unjustice he took a stone and\nhit the judge on his head and made his blood go out and said to him:\nthe fees that you must pay to me for hitting you, pay them back to the\nman that hit me and made my blood go out, then he left out back to\nwhere he came from to escape this village and its unjustice.\nAbdul-Wah\u00e2b Al-Najj\u00e2r said in his stories: I was reading\nthe poem of Al-Ma`arri [a poet's name]:\nWho is the one that saw a judge\nThat did not judge as the way of Sodom\n<>\nand I did not understand what did\nhe\nmean by that and did he mean by Sodom, until I read this story and then\nI understood what is meant by the poem. There are other stories\nattributed to them that would make the author and the reader so shy of\nit but we left it out because they are connected to funny legends. How\nawfully great what the people of Sodom did and it was not of benefit\nfor them the residence of the prophet Lot among them and his guides and\nadvices, and they did not care about his warnings although he promised\nthem the benefits and goodness, and he carried out lot of their\ntroubles, and he stayed with them for long time but no results could be\ngained from them, then he prayed to God to punish them, and God allowed\nto punish them as soon as possible. Then God sent His messengers to\nflip upside down their villages and to tell Abraham about that before\nit is done, and when they went to him they brought to him the tidings\nabout his son Isaac, and Jacob after Isaac. When they went to Abraham,\nhe thought them to be guests, so he made for them some food and got a\nfat sheep for this, and when he saw that their hands do not try to get\nsome of the food he got into doubts about them and got scared from\nthem, so they told him that they are messenger of God had been sent by\nHim to take revenge from the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and they are\nthe ones that are expressed as to be the people of Lot. Some historians\nsaid: I think that the dead sea which is known now as the sea of Lot\nand/or the lake of Lot was not there before this incident, but it\nappeared because of the earthquake that made the toppest of the land to\nthe lowest and it became lower than the sea level by almost four\nhundred meters. Some news been told lately about fiding some traces\nthat belong to the villages of the people of Lot on the edges of the\ndead sea. When Abraham knew that the people of Lot will be destroyed\nand that the angels are sent to do so, and he saw that they had young\npeople, sick people and children that did not do any wrong and also in\nthe land there is Lot and his household, he was affected for this\nmatter, for he had a passionate heart, so he could not hold hisself and\nstarted arguing about that and the angels then answered him \"we know\nwho is there better\" and told him that Lot and his family will get no\nharm and they will be saved, and the judgement of God will not return\nback. God said: And when the awe departed from\nAbraham, and the glad news reached him, he pleaded with Us on behalf of\nthe folk of Lot. Lo! Abraham was mild, imploring,\npenitent(Hud:74-75).\nGod said about the people of Lot in the chapter of Al-A`r\u00e2f: And Lot! (Remember) when he said unto his folk: Will ye\ncommit abomination such as no creature ever did before you ?\nLo! ye come with lust unto men instead of women. Nay, but ye are wanton\nfolk. And the answer of his people was only that\nthey said (one to another):\nTurn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.\nAnd We rescued him and his household, save his wife, who was of those\nwho stayed behind. And We rained a rain upon\nthem. See now the nature of the consequence of\nevil-doers!(Al-A`r\u00e2f:80-84) And we've mentioned before the\nancestry of Lot and that he is the son of Haran ben Terah, the cousin\nof Abraham, and also been said that he is his maternal cousin and that\nSarah the wife of the Abraham is his sister, and we've mentioned before\nthat there is nothing wrong about that, and Lot is Abraham's cousin and\nalso his maternal cousin and also a brother of Sarah the wife of\nAbraham (PUH), check back and meditate and only God knows.\nThe people Lot used to come with lust to men instead of women and so\nthey cut off the child birth and make people avoid passing into their\nlands for this deed because they used to do it with strangers that pass\nthrough their lands, and they used to throw stones on strangers and the\none that hit him then this strnager would be for him, so they take his\nmoney and commit sodomy with him or take three coins from him and leave\nhis money alone, and they had a judge that allows all of that, and in\ntheir gatherings they used to do abominations without being shy, so God\nrevelaed His anger upon them and His punishment, and it was the black\nstones or in some other tales the black water and it is a sign for\nGod's anger and a gate to lands' destruction. Every type is mentioned\nand it might be that every type was done indeed, and so their lands\nwere flipped upside down and then been rained by the black stones, as\nit is told in details in the chapter of Hud: And\nwhen Our messengers came unto Lot, he was distressed and knew not how\nto protect them. He said: This is a distressful day.\nAnd his people came unto him, running towards him - and before then\nthey used to commit abominations - He said: O my people! Here are my\ndaughters! They are purer for you. Beware of Allah, and degrade me not\nin (the person of) my guests. Is there not among you any upright man ?\nThey said: Well thou knowest that we have no right to thy daughters,\nand well thou knowest what we want.He said: Would\nthat I had strength to resist you or had some strong support (among\nyou)!\n(The messengers) said: O Lot! Lo! we are messengers of thy Lord; they\nshall not reach thee. So travel with thy people in a part of the night,\nand let not one of you turn round - (all) save thy wife. Lo! that which\nsmiteth them will smite her (also). Lo! their tryst is (for) the\nmorning. Is not the morning nigh ?\nSo when Our commandment came to pass We overthrew (that township) and\nrained upon it stones of clay, one after another,\nMarked with fire in the providence of thy Lord (for the destruction of\nthe wicked). And they are never far from the wrong-doers(Hud:77-83),\nand lot of such tidings been brought by other holy phrases from other\nchapters with little differences, and we'd like to point that out as\nheadlines, in the chapter of Al-Hijr: They said;\nHave we not forbidden you from (entertaining) anyone ?\nHe said: Here are my daughters, if ye must be doing\n(so)(Al-Hijr:70-71), and in the chapter of Al-Shu`ar\u00e2': And leave the wives your Lord created for you ? Nay,\nbut ye are froward folk(Al-Shu`ar\u00e2':166).\nNext: Some Benefits That Should Not be Left","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Lot: Some Funny Stories","type":"page"}