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Sura 27
Aya 54
54
وَلوطًا إِذ قالَ لِقَومِهِ أَتَأتونَ الفاحِشَةَ وَأَنتُم تُبصِرونَ

Muhammad Asad

AND [thus, too, did We save] Lot, when he said unto his people:1 "Would you commit this abomination with your eyes open [to its being against all nature2]?
  • The story of Lot and the perverted people of Sodom is mentioned in several places, particularly in 7:80-84, 11:69-83 and 26:160-173.
  • Thus Zamakhshari and Razi, stressing the principle that a revolt against the God-willed nature of heterosexuality is a revolt against God Himself.