If it is so...

If it is so, be pious, and be in awe of Allah, and obey me because I lead you to happiness and prosperity. The noble verse says: “Then be in awe of Allah and obey me.” You may not think that this call is a means for obtaining the worldly wealth and that I pursue a material aim. No, it is not so, and I do not want you to give me the slightest wage. My wage is only to the Lord of the worlds.

Nay, you are a people transgressing (the limits)” 167. “They said: ‘If you desist not, O Lut! you shall surely be of those who are expelled’.” For the act of forbidding the wrong, the current sins and unlawful things of every kind and in any time must be recognized and people must earnestly be urged to desist from committing them. One of the unlawful things is sodomy.

The punishment of the person who commits it is slaughter.This deed is so hideous and indecent that even if a person has sexual intercourse with an animal, the flesh of that animal is religiously forbidden to be consumed. Sodomy is a very mean, ugly and indecent action and it is unlawful.

So, these verses criticize those people’s indecent deed and some of their immoral deviations, and since their most important deviation was sexual deviation and sodomy, Lut (as) emphasizes on this very issue and says: “Of all the creatures in the world, do you come to the males?” It means that although Allah has created so many members of the opposite sex for you and by a safe and right marriage you can have a pure and peaceful life, you have left this pure and natural bounty of Allah and you have polluted yourselves with this mean and indecent action.

Then Lut added: “And leave what your Lord has created for you of your wives? Nay, you are a people transgressing (the limits)” Lut wanted to tell them it was not a natural need, whether spiritual and bodily, that caused them to commit that deviated action, but it was disobedience and transgression that polluted them by such an indecency and shame.