Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
79 So he abandoned them [to their fate], and said,
‘O my people!
Certainly I communicated to you
the message of my Lord,
and I was your well-wisher,
but you did not like well-wishers.’
80 And Lot, when he said to his people,
‘What! Do you commit an outrage
none in the world ever committed before you?!
81 Indeed you come to men with desire 1
instead of women!
Rather you are a profligate lot.’
82 But the only answer of his people was that they said,
‘Expel them from your town!
They are indeed a puritanical lot.’
83 So We delivered him and his family, except his wife;
she was one of those who remained behind.
84 Then We poured down upon them a rain [of stones].
So observe how was the fate of the guilty!
85 And to [the people of] Midian, Shu‘ayb, their brother.
He said, ‘O my people, worship Allah!
You have no other god besides Him.
There has certainly come to you a manifest proof
from your Lord.
Observe fully the measure and the balance,
and do not cheat the people of their goods,2
1 Desire: sexual appetite or a sexual urge.
2 That is, by employing short weights and measures.
