Surah Hud, Verse 77/78

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*Surah Hud, Verse 77:*

وَلَمَّا جَاءَتْ رُسُلُنَا لُوطًا سِيءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا وَقَالَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَصِيبٌ

And when Our Messengers came to Lout (Lot), he was grieved on their account and felt himself straitened for them (lest the town people should approach them to commit sodomy with them). He said: "This is a distressful day."

#COMMENTARY

The story of Lūt, as referred to in chapter vii, verses 80-84, laid emphasis on the rejection of Lūt's mission by men who practised unnatural abomination. See chapter vii, verse 80 and its commentary. Here the emphasis is laid on ALLĀH's dealings with men-in mercy for true spiritual service and in righteous wrath and punishment for those who defy the laws of nature established by Jim;- also on men's dealings with each other and the contract between the righteous and the wicked who respect no laws human or divine.

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*Surah Hud, Verse 78:*

وَجَاءَهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَمِن قَبْلُ كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ هَٰؤُلَاءِ بَنَاتِي هُنَّ أَطْهَرُ لَكُمْ فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُخْزُونِ فِي ضَيْفِي أَلَيْسَ مِنكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَّشِيدٌ

And his people came rushing towards him, and since aforetime they used to commit crimes (sodomy, etc.), he said: "O my people! Here are my daughters (i.e. the daughters of my nation), they are purer for you (if you marry them lawfully). So fear Allah and degrade me not as regards my guests! Is there not among you a single right-minded man?"

#COMMENTARY

The Biblical narrative suggests that the daughters were married and their husbands were close by (the book of Genesis, chapter xix, verse 14) and that these same daughters afterwards committed incest with their father and had children by him (the book of Genesis, chapter xix, verse 31). The holy Qur-ān nowhere suggests such abominations. Some Commentators suggests that "my daughters" in the mouth of a venerable men like Lūt, the father of his people, may mean any young girls of those towns. "My son" (waladi) is still common mode of address in Arabic speaking countries when an elderly man addresses a young man.