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" The angels last words to him were that the time for imposing the penalty will be in the morning. As the last hours of the night approached, they told them to get up and depart from the town as soon as they can, because the morning time was near. The verse says: "... Verily their appointed time is the morning: Is not the morning nigh '"?

" Commentary : The Arabic term/ sijjil/ means a piece of baked clay which is neither as soft as clay nor as hard as stone. The Arabic word/ mand ou oud/ means one on top of the other in succession. The objective of stones being marked either is that every piece of stone was meant for a particular person, or it means that those stones were different from the ones on the earth. This holy verse explains the end result of the people of Lot. The people of Lot used to live during the time of Abraham(a.

s), and Lot(a. s.), their prophet, was sent among them to propagate and disseminate the same religion of monotheism. Accompanying Abraham(a.s.) he went to Palestine then to a land called 'Mu'tafikat', where the people used to worship idols and openly sodomize. Lot(a.s.) started struggling against this corruption and social pathology.

The more he struggled, the less he met with success until he was threatened with ‏expulsion if he did not stop preaching.(1) Thereafter the angels of Divine punishment and death came down and after informing Abraham and Lot(a.s.) , completed their mission turning the land of this corrupt tribe upside down. ‏According to verse 31 of the Sura Al- H ijr, a blast occurred and overwhelmed the people of Lot.

Perhaps, it was this horrible blast which turned the region upside down, stones were thrown out from within the earth and fell upon their heads similar to volcanic eruptions and the subsequent explosions which occur.(2) Explanations: The punishment of those who go against human nature is the overturning of their cities and environment.