DAY 285: Hijr 57-77

• DAY 285: Hijr 57-77

   He said, “Then, what is your mission, O messengers?” They replied, “We have actually been sent to a wicked people. As for the family of Lot, we will certainly deliver them all, except his wife. We have determined that she will be one of the doomed.” So when the messenger-angels came to the family of Lot, he said, “You must be strangers!” They responded, “We have come to you with that ˹torment˺ which they have doubted. We come to you with the truth, and we are certainly truthful. So travel with your family in the dark of night, and follow ˹closely˺ behind them. Do not let any of you look back, and go where you are commanded.” We revealed to him this decree: “Those ˹sinners˺ will be uprooted in the morning.” And there came the men of the city, rejoicing. Lot pleaded, “Indeed, these are my guests, so do not embarrass me. Fear Allah and do not humiliate me.” They responded, “Have we not forbidden you from protecting anyone?” He said, “O my people! Here are my daughters ˹so marry them˺ if you wish to do so.” By your life ˹O Prophet˺, they certainly wandered blindly, intoxicated ˹by lust˺. So the ˹mighty˺ blast overtook them at sunrise. And We turned the cities ˹of Sodom and Gomorrah˺ upside down and rained upon them stones of baked clay. Surely in this are signs for those who contemplate. Their ruins still lie along a known route. Surely in this is a sign for those who believe.
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      The Duality of Divine Mission: The same angels brought joy to Ibrahim and destruction to Lut's people, showing Allah's comprehensive control over mercy and justice.
      Precise Justice: Salvation is individual; even Lut's wife was not spared due to her inner disbelief.
      The Depth of Depravity: The people of Lut represent a complete inversion of natural law and morality.
      The Ultimate Punishment: Their destruction was total, humiliating, and tailored to their crime.
      A Tangible Warning: The story is not a myth; it is a historical event whose evidence served as a direct warning to the polytheists of Mecca, who were treading a similar path of rejection and persecution.
      From the beginning, the surah established the root of all evil: the arrogance and jealousy of Iblis, who refused to honor the human being, a creation Allah had chosen to dignify.
      
      Allah contrasts the foundational arrogance of Iblis with His own divine nature: offering impossible mercy and hope to the righteous, as with Ibrahim, while delivering inescapable and severe punishment to the transgressors who, like the people of Lut, follow in the footsteps of Iblis's rebellion.
     
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