وَتَذَرُونَ مَا خَلَقَ لَكُمۡ رَبُّكُم مِّنۡ أَزۡوَٰجِكُمۚ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٌ عَادُونَ
leaving the wives that your Lord has created for you? In fact, you are a transgressing people.”
قَالُواْ لَئِن لَّمۡ تَنتَهِ يَٰلُوطُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلۡمُخۡرَجِينَ
They threatened, “If you do not desist, O Lot, you will surely be expelled.”
قَالَ إِنِّي لِعَمَلِكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡقَالِينَ
Lot responded, “I am truly one of those who despise your ˹shameful˺ practice.
رَبِّ نَجِّنِي وَأَهۡلِي مِمَّا يَعۡمَلُونَ
My Lord! Save me and my family from ˹the consequences of˺ what they do.”
فَنَجَّيۡنَٰهُ وَأَهۡلَهُۥٓ أَجۡمَعِينَ
So We saved him and all of his family,
إِلَّا عَجُوزٗا فِي ٱلۡغَٰبِرِينَ
except an old woman,1 who was one of the doomed.
ثُمَّ دَمَّرۡنَا ٱلۡأٓخَرِينَ
Then We utterly destroyed the rest,
وَأَمۡطَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهِم مَّطَرٗاۖ فَسَآءَ مَطَرُ ٱلۡمُنذَرِينَ
pouring upon them a rain ˹of brimstone˺. How evil was the rain of those who had been warned!