But the only answer of his people was that they said, “Expel Lot’s family from your town. They are people who keep themselves pure.” (56) So We saved him and his family, except for his wife; We decreed that she would be among those who remained behind. (57) And We rained upon them a rain; evil was the rain of those who had been warned. (58)

Say, “All praise is for Allah, and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen. Is Allah better, or what they associate with Him?” (59)

“So those are their houses, fallen in ruin”: this is in the accusative as a circumstantial qualifier; that is, empty. “Because they wronged”: that is, because of their wrongdoing and disbelief,