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Surah: Al-Araf (80)
Lut and the People of Sodom — The First Story of a Major Indecency
أَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلۡفَٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنۡ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ
— الأعراف الآية 80
Verse: "And Lut — when he said to his people: Do you commit an indecency none among the worlds preceded you in?" (7:80)
The unprecedented crime: "None among the worlds preceded you in it" — the Quran records this as an unprecedented moral collapse in human history.
Lut's stance: He called alone in a society that rejected values wholesale. When the angels came as guests — he was saved and his people destroyed.
Lesson: Lut ﷺ did not befriend falsehood when he found no supporter — the lone voice in a society of falsehood is a witness to its owner, not a burden.
The unprecedented crime: "None among the worlds preceded you in it" — the Quran records this as an unprecedented moral collapse in human history.
Lut's stance: He called alone in a society that rejected values wholesale. When the angels came as guests — he was saved and his people destroyed.
Lesson: Lut ﷺ did not befriend falsehood when he found no supporter — the lone voice in a society of falsehood is a witness to its owner, not a burden.
Source: Ibn Kathir (3/451); Al-Sadi; Al-Qurtubi (7/241)
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What Quranic proof confirms that what the people of Lot did was unprecedented?
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