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of Lot to run out of their homes.
They could not talk; rather they could merely stare at each other.
A storm of stones rained on the city. The stones were very hot;
they burned through whatever they touched. The people all ran
away from their houses, yet, an earthquake rocked the town. It
was as if a mighty power had lifted the entire city and flung
it down in one jolt. Meanwhile, hot water gushed up from the ground
as well as falling down from the sky. Everyone realized that this
was the work of the ever-lasting and infinite power of Allah Almighty,
yet, they had no place to go and no choice but death.
....And Allah Almighty says:
...."Thus did We turn it upside
down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay."
(Hijr, 74)
....Finally, the angels completed
their mission by eliminating towns and rubbing out the names of
the People of Lot from the face of the Earth.
....Allah Almighty says:
...."And We have left thereof
(where the people of Lot had been destructed) an evident Sign,
for any people who (care to) understand." (Ankaboot, 35)
....When the People of Lot were destroyed,
their neighbors could not believe what they had seen nor the loud
cries and wails that they had heard.
....Sodom, with its beautiful mountains,
gardens, and vineyards, was gone. The rest was a great, dead lake,
with an extraordinarily high salt content. This lake is now known
as the Dead Sea. It lies on the border between Israel and Jordan.
It measures 930 sq km in area and is 300 meters deep. 360 meters
below sea level, no living organism can survive in the Dead Sea.
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