“When Our messengers came to Abraham with the good news, they said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this town, for its people are indeed wrongdoers.’ He said, ‘But Lot is there!’ They said, ‘We know best who is in it. We shall certainly save him and his family, except for his wife, who will be among those left behind.’” (31–32)

Lot said, “My Lord, support me against the people who spread corruption,” by bringing to pass my warning concerning the punishment.

“When Our messengers came to Abraham with the good news” from Allah of Isaac and Jacob, “they said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this town,’” meaning the people of Lot; and the town was Sodom, “for its people were indeed wrongdoers.”

Abraham said to the messengers, “Lot is there.” They said—that is, the angels said (1)—“We know best who is in it. We shall certainly save him”