Page 51 - The Struggle of the Messengers

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because they lived pure and honest lives among their corrupt
people. In the Qur'an Allah relates how they ridiculed the Prophet
Lot's (as) message:
The only response of his people was to exclaim: "Drive Lot's
family out of your city! They are people who keep themselves
pure!" (Surat an-Naml, 56)

The Prophet Lot (as) urged his people to avoid immorality, to
stay within the limits set by Allah, and to abandon their current
immoral and shameful behavior. This is why they wanted to exile
him and his family. But at Allah's command, as soon as the
Prophet Lot (as) left his city it was destroyed by a catastrophe, and
the unbelievers' trap was neutralized:
When Our command came, We turned their cities upside down
and rained down upon them stones of hard baked clay piled on
top of one another in layers, each one earmarked by your Lord.
And they are never far from the wrongdoers. (Surah Hud, 82-83)
Our Prophet (saas) and the believers were banished from their

towns by their own people and forced to migrate elsewhere
because they proclaimed Allah's existence and unity, invited
people to accept the Qur'an, and prohibited them from doing evil.
In one verse, Allah reveals that the Messengers were banished
from their lands, but that those who exiled them were eventually
destroyed:
How many cities We have destroyed, greater in strength than
your city that has driven you out, and there was no one to help
them. (Surah Muhammad, 13)

This is one of Allah's eternal laws. Those who exile people from
their homes because of their religion cannot remain there
themselves for long. The unbelievers' traps are always foiled.