71 Preface وَنَجَّيناهُ وَلوطًا إِلَى الأَرضِ الَّتي بارَكنا فيها لِلعالَمينَYusuf AliBut We delivered him and (his nephew) Lut (and directed them) to the land1 which We have blessed for the nations.The land of Aram or Syria, which in its widest connotation includes Canaan or Palestine, is a well-watered fertile land, with a Mediterranean sea-coast, on which the famous commercial cities of Tyre and Sidon were situated. Its population is very mixed, as it has been a bone of contention between all the great kingdoms and empires of Western Asia and Egypt, and European interest in it dates from the most ancient times. (R).