61 Preface فَلَمّا جاءَ آلَ لوطٍ المُرسَلونَYusuf AliAt length when the messengers arrived among the adherents1 of Lut,Al means people who adhere to the ways and teaching of a great teacher; e.g., Ali Muḥammad: it does not necessarily mean race or descendants. Ahl (15:65 below) usually implies “household” but maybe taken in an extended sense to include people generally, see 15:67. Qawm (15:62) maybe a collection of aggregate people. In 11:70 the hostile inhabitants of the Cities of the Plain are Called qawmi Lut (the People of Lut). Ashab (companions) refers to a Group rather than to a People: Cf. 15:78. (R).