he said, “You are an unfamiliar people.”

They said, “No, but we have brought to you that (scourge) in which they have been doubting,

and we have come to you with a definite matter and surely we are truthful.

So, carry your family after a part of the night (has passed), and follow them at the rear (to make sure that all of your family has joined you), and no one from you should look back; and keep going to where you are commanded.”

We conveyed to him Our decision that they (the unbelievers) were to be totally uprooted when they would see the morning.

And the people of the city came rejoicing.

He (LūT) said, “They are my guests; so do not put me to shame,

and fear Allah and do not disgrace me.”

They said, “Had we not forbidden you from (being the guardian of) the whole world?”

He said, “These are my daughters, if you are to do something.”

By your life, (O prophet) they were wandering blindly in their intoxication (misguidance).