Help Against Corruption
رَبِّ انْصُرْنِي عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ.
رَبِّ انْصُرْنِي عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
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“My Lord! Help me against the people who spread corruption!”
Form: the imperative “unsurni” (انصرني). Lut’s supplication against the people of Sodom, who had sunk into abomination and spread corruption.
Tafsir of Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi
Sheikh as-Saadi writes: “When the people of Lut rejected all admonitions and tried to commit sin even with the angel guests, Lut called for help, and Allah destroyed those settlements.”
Tafsir of Imam Ibn Kathir
Ibn Kathir notes: “Allah sent the angels (Jibril, Mikail, and Israfil), who turned the cities of Sodom upside down and rained upon them stones of baked clay.”
Tafsir al-Baghawi
“…He said…”: the Prophet Lot.
“…‘My Lord, help me against the people who spread corruption!’…”: Carry out what I said—that is, send down punishment upon them.
In “Sahih al-Bukhari” (No. 3373) the story of the angels who came to Ibrahim and Lut is narrated.