Transliteration:( Wa 'Aadunw wa Fir'awnu wa ikhwaanu loot )
22. By this is meant the followers of Hazrat Lut (On whom be peace) or the people of Sodom. Ummah, too, is sometimes referred to as people or nations: otherwise, Hazrat Lut (On whom be peace) was not a resident of Sodom. He had migrated there. Thus, there is no inconsistency in the verse.
The tafsir of Surah Qaf verse 13 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Qaf ayat 12 which provides the complete commentary from verse 12 through 15.
13. Only the Pharaoh has been mentioned instead of the people of Pharaoh, for he had so dominated his people that they had been left with no independent opinion and will of their own, apart from him. They followed him wherever he led them. That is why he alone was held responsible for the deviation and degeneration of his people. Wherever there exists the freedom of will and action for a nation, it by itself bears the burden of its deeds, and wherever one man’s dictatorship may have rendered a nation powerless the one man alone takes on his shoulders the burden of the sins of entire nation. This doesn’t mean that the nation becomes absolved from its duty and responsibility when the one man alone has burdened himself with the responsibility. This is not so. The nation in such a case becomes responsible for the moral weakness shown by it in that why it allowed a man to overpower and dominate it so completely. The same thing has been alluded to in (Surah Az-Zukhruf, Ayat 54), thus: Pharaoh took his people to be light, and they obeyed him, for they were indeed a sinful people. For explanation, see (Surah Az-Zukhruf, ayat 54) note 50.
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