70قالوا أَوَلَم نَنهَكَ عَنِ العالَمينَMuhammad AsadThey answered: "Have we not forbidden thee [to offer protection] to any kind of people?"1Lit., "all people" (al= dlamin): obviously, because Lot was a stranger in Sodom - having come there from Mesopotamia, his and Abraham's country of origin (see surah 11, note 102) - and had previously aroused the ire of the Sodomites by his moral reproaches (cf. 7:80-82).