They argue that since a prophet is like a father to his nation, Lot was directing the evildoers to turn away from their sins and engage in healthy and pious relationships with the daughters of the nation, i.e. The exegetes Ibn Kathir, Qurtubi and Tabari do not read 'daughters' to mean Lot's literal daughters. But they were unrelenting and replied "thou knowest we have no need of thy daughters: indeed thou knowest quite well what we desire!", referring to his male guests. Distressed and fearful that they would incur the wrath of God, suggested rather lawful marriage to his daughters as pious and purer alternatives to their unlawful wishes, and perhaps as a source of guidance. The cities' residents becoming aware of the visitors demanded that Lot surrender his guests to them. He grieved the men, as he felt powerlessness to protect them from the people of the cities. Then three angels, disguised as handsome males, came to Lut as guests. Lut prayed to God and begged to be saved from the consequences of their sinful acts. Lut told and tried to help them to abandon their sinful ways, but they ridiculed him and threatened to evict him from the cities. It was their sin of sexual misconduct as well which was seen as particularly egregious, with Lut strongly chiding them for approaching men with sexual desire instead of women. According to the Quran, their sins included inhospitality and robbery they hated strangers and robbed travellers, apart from other abuses and rape. The people of the twin cities transgressed against the bounds of God. The Quran also draws upon Lot's wife as an "example for the unbelievers" as she was married to a righteous man but refused to believe in his message and was thus condemned to Hell. Lut and those who believed in him, were to be spared, but his wife was to die in the destruction, with the angels stating that "she is of those who lag behind". While there, they also told him that they had been sent by God to the "guilty people" of Lut to destroy them with "a shower of stones of clay". The Quran states that one day, a group of angels visited Abraham as guests in the guise of men in order to inform him of the fact that his wife Sarah was pregnant with Isaac. Elsewhere in the Quran, Lut is mentioned alongside Ismael, Elisha and Jonah as men whom God favored above the nations. These narratives typically follow similar patterns: a prophet is sent to a community the community pays no heed to his warnings but instead threatens him with punishment God asks the prophet to leave with his followers and the community and its people are subsequently destroyed in a punishment. Islamic scholars have stated that these particular prophets represent the early cycle of prophecy as described in the Quran. Many of these passages place the narrative of Lut in a line of successive prophets including Noah, Hud, Salih and Shuayb.
Lut is referenced a relatively large number of times in the Quran. Abraham himself is said to have been a descendant of Nuh through his son Shem. Abraham's nephew is said to have been the prophet Lut, who was one of the other people who migrated with Abraham out of their community. Abraham had two children, Isaac and Ismael, who both later became prophets. Muslims maintain that Abraham's father was Aazar ( Arabic: آزر, romanized: Āzar), which could be derived from the Syriac Athar, who is known in the Hebrew Bible as Terah. While the Quran does not elaborate upon Lut's later life, Islam holds that all prophets were examples of moral and spiritual ' righteousness'.
The destruction of the cities is traditionally presented as a warning against homosexuality in Islam as well as other things. Like the Biblical narrative, the Quran states that Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants of the cities, and Sodom and Gomorrah were subsequently destroyed. 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" in the Quran. He was sent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as a prophet, and was commanded to preach to their inhabitants on monotheism and the sinfulness of homosexuality and their lustful and violent acts. According to Islamic tradition, Lut was born to Haran and spent his younger years in Ur, later migrating to Canaan with his uncle Abraham. Lut ( Arabic: لوط, romanized: Lūṭ, ), also known as Lot in the Old Testament, is a prophet of God in the Quran.
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