فَأَسرِ بِأَهلِكَ بِقِطعٍ مِنَ اللَّيلِ وَاتَّبِع أَدبارَهُم وَلا يَلتَفِت مِنكُم أَحَدٌ وَامضوا حَيثُ تُؤمَرونَ

So set out with your family during a portion of the night and follow behind them and let not anyone among you look back and continue on to where you are commanded."

وَقَضَينا إِلَيهِ ذٰلِكَ الأَمرَ أَنَّ دابِرَ هـٰؤُلاءِ مَقطوعٌ مُصبِحينَ

And We conveyed to him [the decree] of that matter: that those [sinners] would be eliminated by early morning.

وَجاءَ أَهلُ المَدينَةِ يَستَبشِرونَ

And the people of the city came rejoicing.

قالَ إِنَّ هـٰؤُلاءِ ضَيفي فَلا تَفضَحونِ

[Lot] said, "Indeed, these are my guests, so do not shame me.

وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلا تُخزونِ

And fear Allah and do not disgrace me."

قالَ هـٰؤُلاءِ بَناتي إِن كُنتُم فاعِلينَ

[Lot] said, "These are my daughters - if you would be doers [of lawful marriage]."

لَعَمرُكَ إِنَّهُم لَفي سَكرَتِهِم يَعمَهونَ

By your life, [O Muhammad], indeed they were, in their intoxication, wandering blindly.

فَأَخَذَتهُمُ الصَّيحَةُ مُشرِقينَ

So the shriek seized them at sunrise.

فَجَعَلنا عالِيَها سافِلَها وَأَمطَرنا عَلَيهِم حِجارَةً مِن سِجّيلٍ

And We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay.

إِنَّ في ذٰلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِلمُتَوَسِّمينَ

Indeed in that are signs for those who discern.