{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/lot02.htm","path":"isl/pro/lot02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/lot02.htm","text":"It is mentioned that\nthe prophet (PUH) used to seek protection by God against parsimony, so\nAbu-Ja`far Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) was asked about this so he said: yes,\nevery morning and every evening, and we seek protection by God against\nparsimony and God says: And whoso is saved from\nhis own greed, such are the successful(Al-Taghabun:16). Then he (PUH)\nsaid: and I will tell you about the end of parsimony, the people of Lot\nwere parsimonious about food, and this made them sick with such an\nillness that have no cure, so I said to him: and what is that? He\nanswered: the village of the people of Lot were located on the way of\ncaravans between the lands of Shem and Egypt, and so caravans used to\nstop in their place for hospitality, so when there had been so much\ntraffic in their lands and they were tired of this hospitality because\nof their parsimony and their evil spirit, their parsimony made them\ndefame a man (commit sodomy) without them having the lust to do so, but\nthey did it just to make the guests escape, and so their tidings\narrived to the near by villages, and so parsimony gave them such an\nillness that they could not cure without having the lust for doing such\nthing, and they went to ask men in the lands to do this with them and\neven gave rewards for that, so the man asking said to the Imam,\nAl-B\u00e2qir (PUH): all of the village of Lot used to do this? He\nanswered: yes, except one house of believers, didn't you hear God's\nsaying: Then we brought forth such believers as\nwere there.But We found there but one house of\nthose surrendered (to Allah)(Al-\u00d0\u00e2riy\u00e2t:35-36), and\nthen Lot stayed among them calling them back to God for thirty years,\nand they used not to clean themselves after excrement\n and never\npurify themselves after uncleanness (from semen, pollution), and Lot\nwas a generous man that give hospitality to his guests and aware them\nabout his people, so when his people saw this they said \n\"Have we not forbidden you from (entertaining) anyone ?\n\",\nand it is a long speech. Then after that when guests used to come to\nLot, he kept his hospitality as a secret, until the guest is out of his\nhouse for he was afraid that his people would defame him with his\nguests, for Lot had no tribe to protect him, and Lot along with Abraham\nexpected God's wrath upon them.\nSome speeches contained the meaning of that God knew that the people of\nLot will never be fixed and that their torture will be in life before\nthe after-life as a revenge for their bad deeds and to be a lesson for\nothers, and God used to delay their punishment for the sake of Abraham\nand Lot for they hated destroying lands. For this and that, God delayed\ntheir punishment until their time had come and had no way back, so He\nsent His messengers to sink their lands. In tidings: When it was\nmidnight, Lot took his daughters and went out, and his wife went to her\npeople telling them that Lot want to escape, so then said Gabriel\n(PUH): and I was called from the Throne at the time of dawn: O Gabriel,\nGod's promise for the torture of Lot's people became so true, so pull\nout their village down from the seventh earth, then fly with it up into\nheaven and stop it there until the commandment of God arrives to you to\nflip it down, and leave a portion from the house of Lot to be as\nreminder for passers by, so I went down to the village and I stroke its\neast with my right wing and its west with my left wiing and then I\npulled it out from the depth of the seventh earth except the house of\nLot, then I went up with it in a place where even the creations of\nheaven can hear the cry of their cocks and the barking of their dogs,\nso when sun rose up I was called from the Throne: O Gabriel, flip the\nlands over the people and so I did and made their lowest on the top,\nand God sent them heavy rains of baked clay, and the position of their\nlands were in the lands of Shem, so I flipped their lands and made it\nbetween the lands of Shem and Egypt and it made some lines out of the\nsea. We say, flipping the villages of Lot is something that all\nreligions agree on although there are different ways for how it was\nflipped, and we should not think of a special way for their punishment\nwas done by destroying their lands by many ways and that does not harm\nthe desired essential idea and that God took revenge from them for\ntheir evil-doings and their exaggerated tyranny and rebellion against\nGod and His prophet which they harmed so much, and your Lord \nis no oppressor of (His) bondmen.\nNext: Presenting His Daughters to The People of His Village and His\nWife Conditions","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Lot: Some Benefits That Should Not be Left","type":"page"}