133 Preface وَإِنَّ لوطًا لَمِنَ المُرسَلينَYusuf AliSo also was Lut1 among those sent (by Us).The best illustration of this passage about Lut will be found in 7:80-84. He was a prophet sent to Sodom and Gomorrah, Cities of the Plain, by the Dead Sea. The inhabitants were given over to abominable crimes, against which he preached. They insulted him and threatened to expel him. But God in His mercy saved him and his family, with one exception, (see the following note), and then destroyed the Cities.