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The towns of Lut's people

قرى قوم لوط

The towns that were overturned, said to be where the Dead Sea is.

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Whose story is set here

Today
by the Dead Sea
How sure
The region is known; the exact spot is not.
Map position
31.2° N, 35.5° E

About this place

The towns of Lut's people were turned upside down (11:82). islamweb's fatwa says they were the villages of Sodom, and that it is said they lay where the Dead Sea is today; it presents this as a report, not a certainty.

Evidence

QuranHud (Hud)Quran 11:82

فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَـٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ ٨٢

So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]

Saheeh International · QuranEnc v1.1.2

Another translation: Al-Hilali & Muhsin Khan · QuranEnc v1.1.2

82. So when Our Commandment came, We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down, and rained on them stones of baked clay, in a well-arranged manner one after another;

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