Transliteration:( Fa asri bi ahlika biqit'im minal laili wattabi' adbaarahum wa laa yaltafit minkum ahadunw wamdoo haisu tu'maroon )
"So travel with your family in a part of the night [74] and follow their rear [75], and let not one of you look back, but go wherever you are commanded [76]."
From this we learn that besides some members of his family, no one believed in Hazrat Lut (عليه السلام).
Otherwise, the verse would have mentioned believers along with his family.
This also shows that Divine punishment does not descend upon a locality as long as righteous people live there.
Hence, the command to separate the believing family before punishment was sent.
Hazrat Lut (عليه السلام) was instructed to follow behind his family,
— to ensure no one was left behind,
and to convey Allah’s command: “Let no one look back.”
From this we learn that those who guide and protect may stay behind the group.
Additionally, the phrase hints:
Whoever turns his back to worldly distractions and heads toward truth—be it in battle or debate—may find Divine support, if Allah wills.
This means they were commanded to journey towards Syria,
a land of safety and refuge where they would be free from the punishment destined for their city.
65. “Then travel for a portion of the night with your family, and you go behind them in the rear, and let no one amongst you look back, but go on to where you are ordered.” 66. And We made this decree known to him that those (sinners) would be rooted out in the early morning.
Allah tells us that His angels ordered Lut to set out after part of the night had passed. They told him to walk behind them, to protect them. Similarly, the Messenger of Allah would walk in the rear of the army on military campaigns, in order to help the weak and carry those who had no means of transport.
(and let no one amongst you look back,) meaning – when you hear the people screaming from their torment, do not turn around to look at them; leave them to face whatever punishment and vengeance is coming to them.
(but go on to where you are ordered.) – it is as if they had a guide with them to show them the way.
(And We made this decree known to him) meaning – We already told him about that.
(that those (sinners) would be rooted out in the early morning.) meaning in the morning, as in another Ayah:
(Indeed, morning is their appointed time. Is not the morning near) ﴿11:81﴾
(15:65) So set out with your family in a watch of the night, and keep yourself behind them,[37] and no one of you may turn around,[38] and keep going ahead as you have been commanded.”
37. That is, you should walk behind your people lest anyone of them should stay behind.
38. It did not mean: “look not behind thee, lest thou be consumed,” as stated in the Bible. But it merely meant to warn them: None of you should turn round to see what was happening behind them lest you should stop to see when you heard the cries of the smitten people. For it is neither the time nor the place viewing the destruction nor shedding tears of regret. If you stop even for a minute in the territory of the smitten people you also might get hurt from the rain of stones.
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