Islamic Timeline of RevelationOpen in flowchart →Prophet Lut (AS)
لوط
A prophet who believed in Ibrahim and was sent to a people who openly committed indecency and highway robbery. Their towns were overturned and rained upon with stones, while Lut and his believing family were saved, except his wife.
Biography
Lut believed in Ibrahim and emigrated with him (29:26); Islamic tradition, in line with the Bible, describes him as Ibrahim's nephew. He was sent to a people (identified in tradition with Sodom and the cities of the plain near the Dead Sea) who practiced sexual relations between men, cut off the road, and committed evil openly in their gatherings (7:80-81; 29:29).
Angels in the form of guests came first to Ibrahim with glad tidings of Ishaq, then to Lut (11:69-81). His people rushed to seize the guests; Lut pointed them to 'my daughters' (understood by many exegetes as the women of the nation, through lawful marriage) (11:78). The angels told him to leave by night with his family, except his wife, who would be among the destroyed (11:81; 66:10). Allah turned the towns upside down and rained stones of baked clay upon them (11:82).
The Quran praises Lut as given judgement and knowledge (21:74-75). Islamic belief rejects the Biblical episode attributing drunkenness and incest to him (Genesis 19) as incompatible with prophetic integrity ('ismah).
Sources & explanation
۞ Qur'an
29:26 29:28 29:29 29:31 29:32 29:33 29:34 29:35 7:80 7:81 7:82 7:83 7:84 11:77 11:78 11:79 11:80 11:81 11:82 11:83 15:59 15:60 15:61 15:65 15:73 15:74 26:160 26:165 26:166 26:167 26:171 26:173 27:54 27:55 27:56 27:57 27:58 37:133 37:134 37:135 37:136 54:33 54:34 54:37 54:38 66:10 21:74 21:75
Links open quran.com.
📜 Hadith verified on sunnah.com
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Sahih al-Bukhari 3372 Sahih
'May Allah have mercy on Lut; he wished to take refuge with a powerful support', and on Ibrahim and Yusuf.
💬 Explanation Unverified
Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza's perspective
Methodological note (not a direct quote): Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza's widely known approach is to build narratives primarily on the Quran and Sahih Hadith, to set aside Israiliyat (Judeo-Christian lore absorbed into later tafsir) and weak or fabricated narrations, and to avoid sectarian framing. Applied to this node: The Quranic account is followed; Israiliyat that defame prophets (such as the Biblical drunkenness story) are rejected on the basis of the Quran's praise of him.
Further references
- Quran 7:80-84
- Quran 11:77-83
- Quran 15:57-77
- Quran 29:26-35
- Quran 66:10
- Quran 21:74-75
Connections
Comes from
- Prophet Ibrahim (Khalilullah) (AS) prophetic succession — Lut believed in Ibrahim (29:26); nephew per tradition