Walootan ith qala liqawmihi atatoona alfahishata waantum tubsiroona
English
Ahmed Ali
(Remember) Lot, when he said to his people: "Why do you indulge in obscenities when you know (it is evil)?
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and lot!) we sent him to his people (when he said unto his folk: will you commit abomination) sodomy (knowingly) while knowing it to be an abomination?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and lot (lūtan is in the accusative because of an implied udhkur, ‘mention’, before it, and it [lūtan] is substituted by [the following, idh qāla …]), when he said to his people, ‘what! do you commit [such] abomination, namely, homosexual intercourse, while you watch?, that is to say, while you watch one another, [so] engrossed [are you] in the sinful act?
