April 10th: Prophet Lut

The story of Prophet Lut (AS)

- Lut was the nephew of Prophet Ibrahim (AS)
- He lived in the town of Sodom.
- The people of Sodom were robbers, murderers, rapists, and they were most famous for their homosexuality. (They were the first people to commit this sin)
-They would rape and sodomize the men who would pass through their town
- Lut tried to call them to the straight path, but NO ONE believed in him.
- They responded to him: "Bring us the chastisement of Allah if you are truthful"
- Allah sends angels to Prophet Lut in the form of men.
- When they approach the town of Sodom, Lut's daughter sees them on the outskirts of the town. She fears that they will be harmed by the people and she asks them not to enter the town until she returns.
- Lut's daughter goes back to her father and tells him about those men, she describes them as being very handsome.
- Lut goes at night time to bring the guests into his home, hoping that no one will see them.
- He walks infront of the men and he starts to say bad things about the people of Sodom. He's hoping that they would leave the town because he didn't want to turn them away.
-The angels were instructed not to destroy the people of Sodom until their prophet witnesed against them.
- They arrive at Lut's house and all of a sudden the people of the town come rushing to them. How did they find out that Lut had guests? His wife told them. She was corrupt and therefore she was punished along with the people of Sodom because she sympathized with them.
-Lut was trying to hold the people back, now the angels tell him "O Lut! We are the Messengers of Your Lord, by no means shall they reach you"
-Gibril came out to the people and struth their faces with the tip of his wing, causing them all to become blind.
-Lut was ordered to leave the town with his family, leaving his wife behind. The angels told him that the people of Sodom will be punished in the morning.
-Aya: "Allah has set forth an example for the disbelievers, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lut, who were under two of our righteous slaves, yet they betrayed them, so they availed them nothing before Allah, and it was said: 'Enter the fire, with those who enter it"
-Allah sent the punishment down upon the people of Sodom. First it was a loud cry, they Gibril came and raised the whole town with his wing and flipped it upside down smacking it back into the ground.
-This punishment of Allah to the people of Sodom is not far fetched from the people who commit the sin of homosexuality in our day and time. May Allah protect us and all the Muslims from this sin.