قوله - عز وجل - : ( وما كان جواب قومه إلا أن قالوا ) قال بعضهم لبعض : ( أخرجوهم ) يعني : لوطا وأهل دينه ، ( من قريتكم إنهم أناس يتطهرون ) يتنزهون عن أدبار الرجال .
His people, who committed this shameless wrong which they had been forbidden from doing, only responded by turning away from the truth, saying: 'Drive Lot and his followers out of your city. They are a people who have kept away from this action of ours, so it is not befitting that they stay living here among us.'