A warning that includes the treatment of other people
Lut’s address to his people condemns sexual wrongdoing and, in Surah al-‘Ankabut, attacks on travellers and misconduct in gatherings. His account therefore concerns a community’s behaviour toward others as well as its rejection of a messenger. The people’s reply was to demand punishment rather than reconsider. The profile follows the terms of the cited text without turning the story into a licence for personal violence.
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Guests, distress, and departure
When the messengers arrived as guests, Lut was distressed by the danger he expected from his people. He tried to protect the visitors and appealed against disgrace through them. The visitors revealed their role, reassured him, and instructed a departure by night. The story’s movement is from threatened hospitality to the deliverance of those instructed to leave, followed by judgement upon the town. The depicted harbour or valley is an illustration, not a identified site.
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A family boundary the text makes explicit
The Qur’an mentions Lut’s daughters without giving names and records his wife among those not delivered. Surah al-Tahrim uses the wives of Lut and Nuh to illustrate that closeness to a prophet does not replace personal faith. Lut’s well-known identification as Ibrahim’s nephew belongs to historical interpretation rather than an explicit relationship in the passages shown here. The explorer keeps his household visible without making that claim a confirmed scriptural edge.
What the sources leave open
The cited Qur’anic passages do not state the familiar claim that he was Ibrahim’s nephew. That traditional relationship is not drawn as a confirmed Qur’anic link here.
FOLLOW THE JOURNEY
Moments in the account
Presented in a reading sequence. Undated episodes are not assigned invented dates.
1
A warning to his people
Lut challenged the misconduct of his people, including sexual wrongdoing, attacks on travellers, and wrongdoing in gatherings. His message joins moral responsibility with public safety.
2
Visitors and distress
The messengers came as guests, and Lut feared his people would harm them. He appealed to his people to fear Allah and not disgrace him through his guests.
3
Leaving in the night
The messengers told him to leave with his household by night. His wife was excluded from those delivered. The account records the judgement that followed.
4
Household and responsibility
His daughters are mentioned without names. His wife is cited alongside Nuh’s wife as an example that closeness to a righteous person does not guarantee belief.
5
Belief and departure
Surah al-Ankabut records Lut’s belief and Ibrahim’s announced migration to his Lord. This associates them in the narrative without explicitly identifying Lut as his nephew.
THE FINAL RECORDED ACCOUNT
Life, death & what is known
Where the narrative leaves us
The cited story records his departure and deliverance before the judgement on his people. It does not give his later age, date of death, or burial.
Death and burial
The passages cited here do not give his age at death, burial place, or manner of death. Later historical reports should not be treated as details established by these verses.
YOUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY TREE
Lut & the recorded family
LutSELECTED PROFILE
WifeWaliah / WahilahName not establishedChildrenDaughters · personal names unrecordedCollective accountFather · historical reportHaran · reported father of Lut
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All 25 prophets named in the Qur’an are included. A complete authenticated genealogy for every prophet is not preserved in these sources. Unconnected people remain unconnected; historical chains, disputed names and missing generations are labelled. Later descendants are not an exhaustive list.