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The people of Lut

قوم لوط

God overturned the cities of Lut's people and rained upon them stones of baked clay, marked one by one with your Lord — the punishment of a people who invented an immorality none before them had committed.

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God overturned the cities of Lut's people and rained upon them stones of baked clay, marked one by one with your Lord — the punishment of a people who invented an immorality none before them had committed.

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Mentioned in
Qur'an 29:40

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Dreams (ahlam)· The Higher Assembly· The Creation and Nature of Angels· Sihr (sorcery)· Adam's disobedience and Iblis· The Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)· In the Courts of the Hadith Qudsi (television programme)· Liqa' al-Iman, Meeting of Faith (television programme)

Sources

  • Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  • Ibn Kathir (d. 774 AH), Qisas al-Anbiya' — ed. 'Abd al-Hayy al-Farmawi, Dar al-Tiba'a wa-al-Nashr al-Islamiyya, Cairo, 5th edition 1417 AH/1997 CE
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Dreams (ahlam)

What the sleeper sees in sleep. The hadith collections divide it into the true dream (ru'ya), which is from God and a glad tidings for the believer; the bad dream (hulm), which is from Satan; and the soul's idle talk (hadith nafs), which is not acted on.