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PEOPLE OF LUT (AS)
PEOPLE OF LUT (AS)
Dead Sea
Dead Sea

A satellite photograph of the region where the people of Lut (as) lived.

erupted were in a "baked form". (The same event is related in the verse
173 of Surat ash-Shu’ara as "We rained down on them a shower (of brim-
stone): and evil was the shower on those who were admonished (but
heeded not)!")
In relation to this subject, Werner Keller writes:
The subsidence released volcanic forces that had been lying dormant deep
down along the whole length of the fracture. In the upper valley of the
Jordan near Bashan there are still towering craters of extinct volcanoes;
great stretches of lava and deep layers of basalt have been deposited on
the limestone surface. 15
These lava and basalt layers constitute the greatest evidence that a vol-
canic explosion and earthquake had once taken place here. The catastro-
phe depicted in the following expression as "we rained down on them
brimstones hard as baked clay, spread, layer on layer" in the Qur’an most

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