Lūṭ | |
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| لوط Lot | |
| Died | |
| Predecessor | Ibrahim |
| Successor | Ismail |
| Children | Lot's daughters |
| Parent | Haran |
| Relatives | Ibrāhīm (uncle) Ismā’īl (cousin) Ishāq (cousin) |
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Lut (Arabic: لوط, romanized: Lūṭ, [luːtˁ]), also known as Lot in the Old Testament, is a prophet and messenger of God in the Qur'an.[1][2] According to Islamic tradition, Lut was born to Haran and spent his younger years in Ur, later migrating to Canaan with his uncle Abraham.[3] He was sent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as a prophet,[4] and was commanded to preach to their inhabitants on monotheism.
Though Lut was not born among the people he'd been sent to preach to, the people of Sodom are still regarded as his "brethren" (Arabic: إِخْوَٰن, romanized: ikhwān) in the Qur'an.[5] Like the Biblical narrative, the Qur'an states that Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants of the cities, and Sodom and Gomorrah were subsequently destroyed. The destruction of the cities is traditionally presented as a warning against homosexuality in Islam as well as other things.
While the Qur'an does not elaborate upon Lut's later life, Islam holds that all prophets were examples of moral and spiritual 'righteousness'.[clarification needed]
- ^ Quran 26:161
- ^ Wheeler, Brannon M. (2002). Prophets in the Quran: an introduction to the Quran and Muslim exegesis. Comparative Islamic studies. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-8264-4957-3.
- ^ Noegel, Scott B.; Wheeler, Brannon M. (2010). "Lot". The A to Z of Prophets in Islam and Judaism. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. pp. 118–126. ISBN 978-0810876033. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Hasan, Masudul. History of Islam.
- ^ Quran 50:13