Surah Araf ayat 82 Tafsir Quran 7:82

﴿وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا أَخْرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرْيَتِكُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ﴾
[ الأعراف: 82]

7:82 But the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."

And the response of his people was only that they said ‘Expel them that is Lūt and his followers from your city. Surely they are folk who would be pure!’ from the abomination of penetrating the rears of men.

But what was the response of his people other than to say: Oust Lut, his family and those who fell in line of your town, and drive them away; they are averse to our disposition and wish to cleanse themselves of what they imagine to be moral defilement

إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ ( "These are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins )!") Qatadah commented, "They shamed them ( Lut and the believers ) with what is not a shame at all." Mujahid commented, "( Lut's people said about Lut and the believers, ) They are a people who want to be pure from men's anuses and women's anuses!" Similar was narrated from Ibn `Abbas.

(7:82) Their only answer was: 'Banish them from your town. They are a people who pretend to be pure.'  *65

But the answer of his people was meaning

*65).
It is evident from the present verse that the people of Lot Were not only shameless and corrupt, but were also a people who had sunk in moral depravity to such a degree that even the presence of a few righteous persons had become intolerable to them.
Their moral degradation left them with no patience for anyone who sought to bring about any moral reform.
Even the slightest element of purity found in their society was too much for them, and they simply wished to have their society purged of it.

When these people reached such a low point of wickedness and hostility to good, God decreed that they be wiped out altogether.
When the collective life of a people becomes totally bereft of goodness and purity, it forfeits the right to exist on earth.
Their example is like that of a basket of fruit.
As long as some fruit remains firm, there is some justification to keep that basket.
But the basket has to be thrown away when the fruit becomes rotten.

 

إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ ( "These are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins )!") Qatadah commented, "They shamed them ( Lut and the believers ) with what is not a shame at all." Mujahid commented, "( Lut's people said about Lut and the believers, ) They are a people who want to be pure from men's anuses and women's anuses!" Similar was narrated from Ibn `Abbas.

( And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another ): Turn them out) i.e. Lot and his two daughters: Za’ura and Raytha ( of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure ) who avoid the behinds of men and women.

And the answer of his people was only that they said: "Drive them out of your town, these are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins)!"

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