Besides, they committed all sorts of wanton and lewd acts including merry-making, singing, gambling and throwing of filth on passers by. One of such despicable acts was that they openly indulged in sodomy. Thus the people of Prophet Lut were guilty of such abominable sins the example of which was never heard before. At this he said to the judge, "You should pay this man whatever is due to me for the trouble I took for your sake". When the slave saw this high-handedness and the gross injustice, he hit the judge with a stone and his head also started bleeding. The judge decreed against the slave and asked him to pay the man for the trouble he took for him. The matter was referred to the court of law. The slave refused to pay anything to the man. That man then grabbed his collar and said, "If this blood had remained inside your body it would have been harmful to you and, therefore, you should pay me for doing you this favour. When this slave reached there a man struck him in his head with a stone and it started bleeding. Prophet Ibrahim's wife, Sarah sent her slave to the district of Sadum to report about the welfare of Prophet Lut. The following narration is quoted from an Egyptian author and it tells us how mean these people were. If any traveller passed by the town, these people used to come one by one and robbed him of his property and merchandise and made him go as a pauper. The people of this district were indecent and lustful as they indulged in abominable and immoral things. Therefore, with the permission of Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Lut migrated to a place in the district of Sadum in Jordan and settled there. There they needed more space because of the abundance of their cattle and personal belongings. Afterwards, they moved from Egypt to Baytul Maqdis in Palestine and settled there. Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Lut grew rich in Egypt and they possessed enough livestock and wealth. He embraced the faith of Prophet Ibrahim and migrated from Babylon with him. Prophet Lut was the nephew of Prophet Ibrahim. His people had no answer to his remarks but they told one another, "Expel him from our town, he and his people profess to be pure " We saved Lut and his family except his wife who was one ' of those who stayed behind. Indeed you are a people who are guilty of excess. And We sent Lut who said to his people: 'Why do you commit such indecent acts that have never been committed by anyone before? In preference to women you satisfy your lust with men.
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