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15:64 And we have come to you with truth, and indeed, we are truthful.<BR /> | 15:64 And we have come to you with truth, and indeed, we are truthful.<BR /> | ||
15:65 <span style="color:#0000FF">So set out with your family during a portion of the night and follow behind them and let not anyone among you look back and continue on to where you are commanded."</span><BR /> | 15:65 <span style="color:#0000FF">So set out with your family during a portion of the night and follow behind them and let not anyone among you look back and continue on to where you are commanded."</span><BR /> | ||
15:66 And We conveyed to him [the decree] of that matter: that those [sinners] would be eliminated by early morning.<BR /> | 15:66 <span style="color:#0000FF">And We conveyed to him [the decree] of that matter: that those [sinners] would be eliminated by early morning.</span><BR /> | ||
15:67 '''And the people of the city came rejoicing.'''<BR /> | 15:67 '''And the people of the city came rejoicing.'''<BR /> | ||
15:68 <span style="color:#008000">[Lot] said, "Indeed, these are my guests, so do not shame me.</span><BR /> | 15:68 <span style="color:#008000">[Lot] said, "Indeed, these are my guests, so do not shame me.</span><BR /> | ||
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1) In surah 15, the angels tell Lot when they first arrive that they are there to save him and his family from the punishment to come. A mob arrives trying to take the visitors and Lot attempts to placate them by offering his daughters. In Q. 11, the sequence of events is very expressly the other way around: the mob events occur first, which leads to the angels explaining how they will save Lot and his family. Although 15:67 starts with the "And" conjunction (like some of the previous verses), the suspicion of contradiction in Q. 15 is well justified from the textual sequence of the elements (this is, after all, a narrative), and from what naturally reads like the angels explaining themselves upon their arrival in the first few verses. This is even apparent from the way Lot addresses them as "people unknown" (qawmun munkarūna) in 15:62, mirroring the way Abraham addressed the angels when he greeted them in 51:25 (see above). | 1) In surah 15, the angels tell Lot when they first arrive that they are there to save him and his family from the punishment to come. A mob arrives trying to take the visitors and Lot attempts to placate them by offering his daughters. In Q. 11, the sequence of events is very expressly the other way around: the mob events occur first, which leads to the angels explaining how they will save Lot and his family. Although 15:67 starts with the "And" conjunction (like some of the previous verses), the suspicion of contradiction in Q. 15 is well justified from the textual sequence of the elements (this is, after all, a narrative), and from what naturally reads like the angels explaining themselves upon their arrival in the first few verses. This is even apparent from the way Lot addresses them as "people unknown" (qawmun munkarūna) in 15:62, mirroring the way Abraham addressed the angels when he greeted them in 51:25 (see above). | ||
2) Another contradiction concerns the context in which the angels tell Lot of their mission to save him and his family. In 15:61-66, the angels reveal this in response to Lot addressing them as people unknown / strange when they first arrive, alluding in verse 63 to Lot's pleadings to the people in other passages. In | 2) Another contradiction concerns the context in which the angels tell Lot of their mission to save him and his family. In 15:61-66, the angels reveal this in response to Lot addressing them as people unknown / strange when they first arrive, alluding in verse 63 to Lot's pleadings to the people in other passages. In 11:81, instead the angels reveal this in order to ease the fear he expresses about the mob. | ||
3) Finally, the accounts conflict in sequencing the elements of Lot's appeal to the mob. In 11:78 he says “these are my daughters” then asks them to “fear Allah and do not disgrace me”. In 15:68-71 instead he asks them to “fear Allah and do not disgrace me”, the mob responds, and then comes the “These are my daughters” element. | 3) Finally, the accounts conflict in sequencing the elements of Lot's appeal to the mob. In 11:78 he says “these are my daughters” then asks them to “fear Allah and do not disgrace me”. In 15:68-71 instead he asks them to “fear Allah and do not disgrace me”, the mob responds, and then comes the “These are my daughters” element. | ||