{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/quran/02609.htm","path":"isl/quran/02609.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/02609.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\n160. Kaththabat qawmu lootin almursaleena\n160. The people of L\u016bt rejected'\n The apostles.\n161. Ith qala lahum akhoohum lootun ala tattaqoona\n161. Behold, their brother L\u016bt\n Said to them: \"Will ye not\n Fear (God)?\n162. Innee lakum rasoolun ameenun\n162. \"I am to you an apostle\n Worthy of all trust.\n163. Faittaqoo Allaha waateeAAooni\n163. \"So fear God and obey me.\n164. Wama as-alukum AAalayhi min ajrin in ajriya illa AAala rabbi alAAalameena\n164. \"No reward do I ask\n Of you for it my reward\n Is only from the Lord\n Of the Worlds.\n165. Ata/toona alththukrana mina alAAalameena\n165. \"Of all the creatures\n In the world, will ye\n Approach males,\n166. Watatharoona ma khalaqa lakum rabbukum min azwajikum bal antum qawmun AAadoona\n166. \"And leave those whom God\n Has created for you\n To be your mates?\n Nay, ye are a people\n Transgressing (all limits)!\"\n167. Qaloo la-in lam tantahi ya lootu latakoonanna mina almukhrajeena\n167. Whey said: \"If thou desist not,\n O L\u016bt! thou wilt assuredly\n Be cast out!\"\n168. Qala innee liAAamalikum mina alqaleena\n168. He said: \"I do detest\n Your doings:\"\n169. Rabbi najjinee waahlee mimma yaAAmaloona\n169. \"O my Lord! deliver me\n And my family from\n Such things as they do!\"\n170. Fanajjaynahu waahlahu ajmaAAeena\n170. So We delivered him\n And his family,\u2014all\n171. Illa AAajoozan fee alghabireena\n171. Except an old woman\n Who lingered behind.\n172. Thumma dammarna al-akhareena\n172. But the rest We destroyed Utterly.\n173. Waamtarna AAalayhim mataran fasaa mataru almunthareena\n173. We rained down on them\n A shower (of brimstone):\n And evil was the shower\n On those who were admonished\n (But heeded not)!\n174. Inna fee thalika laayatan wama kana aktharuhum mu/mineena\n174. Verily in this is a Sign\n But most of them\n Do not believe.\n175. Wa-inna rabbaka lahuwa alAAazeezu alrraheemu\n175. And verily thy Lord\n Is He, the Exalted in Might\n Most Merciful.","title":"The Quran: S\u016bra XXVI.: Shu\u2018ar\u0101a, or The P...","type":"page"}