Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and the Fire will be your abode,
and you will not have any helpers.’
26 There upon Lot believed in him,
and he said,
‘Indeed I am migrating toward my Lord.
Indeed He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.’
27 And We gave him Isaac and Jacob,
and We ordained among his descendants
prophethood and the Book,
and We gave him his reward in the world,
and in the Hereafter he will indeed be
among the Righteous.
28 And Lot, when he said to his people,
‘You indeed commit an indecency
none in the world has ever committed before you!
29 What! Do you come to men,
and cut off the way,1
and commit outrages in your gatherings?’
But the only answer of his people was
that they said, ‘Bring us Allah’s punishment
should you be truthful.’
30 He said, ‘My Lord!
Help me against this corruptive lot.’
31 And when Our messengers 2 came to Abraham
with the good news,
they said, ‘We are indeed going to destroy
1 That is, the natural way of conjugal relations between the sexes.
2 That is, the angels sent to give the good news of Isaac’s birth to Abraham and to destroy the people of Sodom.
