سورة النمل، الآية ٥٤
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ ٥٤
walūṭan idh qāla liqawmihi atatūna l-fāḥishata wa-antum tub'ṣirūna
And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality1081 while you are seeing?1082
[1081] Homosexual acts.
[1082] i.e., openly. Another meaning is "...while you are aware [that it is wrong]."
Verse 54 of Surah An-Naml (27:54), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 381 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
O Messenger, remember Lot when he said to his people, reprimanding them and criticising them: “Do you come to the indecent act, which is sodomy in your meetings, openly watching one another?
And [remember] Lot, when he said to his people, “Do you commit this shameful act16 while seeing [one another]17?
[16] i.e., sodomy.
[17] i.e., publicly, or while you are aware [that it is wrong].
And (remember) Lût (Lot)! When he said to his people.2 Do you commit Al-Fâhishah (evil, great sin, every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse, sodomy) while you see (one another doing evil without any screen)?"
[2] (V.27:54) i.e. the town of Sodom in Palestine - the place where the Dead Sea is now. (See the book of history by Ibn Kathir ‘The Stories of the Prophets’). (كتاب التاريخ لابن كثير).
And Lot! when he said unto his folk: Will ye commit abomination knowingly?
(We also sent) Lut (as a messenger): behold, He said to his people, "Do ye do what is shameful though ye see (its iniquity)?
And (We sent) Lut, when he said to his people: What! do you commit indecency while you see?
And Lut, (Lot) as he said to his people, "Do you come up to (the) obscenity (while) you behold (its impurity)?
يَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ لِلُوطٍ إِنْ كَانَ لَيَأْوِي إِلَى رُكْنٍ شَدِيدٍ}.
فَعَقَرُوهَا فَقَالَ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ فِى دَارِكُمْ ثَلَٰثَةَ أَيَّامٍ ذَٰلِكَ وَعْدٌ غَيْرُ مَكْذُوبٍ
But they hamstrung her, so he said, "Enjoy yourselves in your homes for three days. That is a promise not to be denied [i.e., unfailing]."
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, "Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds [i.e., peoples]?
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Indeed, you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds.
إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ
When he said to his people, "Will you not fear Allāh?
