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Surah Adh-Dhaariyat (51) — Ayah 32

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قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُّجْرِمِينَ ﴿32﴾
They said: "We have been sent to a people who are Mujrimûn (polytheists, sinners, criminals, disbelievers in Allâh)
قَالُوٓا۟ qālū They said
إِنَّآ innā Indeed, we
أُرْسِلْنَآ ur'sil'nā [we] have been sent
إِلَىٰ ilā to
قَوْمٍۢ qawmin a people
مُّجْرِمِينَ muj'rimīna criminal

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(Verse 32 to 34) {قَالُوْۤا اِنَّاۤ اُرْسِلْنَاۤ اِلٰى قَوْمٍ مُّجْرِمِيْنَ … :} For the details of these verses, see Surah Hud (83), Al-Hijr (58, 74), and Surah Al-Ankabut (31 to 35).

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32. 1. This refers to the people of Lot, whose greatest crime was sodomy.

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They replied, "We have been sent to a criminal people [26]."

[26]
Mention of the People of Lut:

This criminal nation was the people of Lut, for whom it is sufficient to simply call them a criminal nation, because they were the embodiment of criminality. They committed shirk with Allah, were the founders and inventors of sodomy, would commit sodomy with travelers and then rob them of their belongings and drive them out of their town. They denied the Hereafter and the messengers, and threatened to expel their prophet from their town. In short, they were a nation involved in every kind of disbelief, polytheism, and wickedness.