Finally Allah answered the prayer of Hid servant Lot, and the decree for a dreadful and heavy punishment of the defiled people was issued. The angels whose mission was to punish the homosexual non-believers; in their way to Sodom and Gomorrah paid a visit to HAZRAT ABRAHAM, in irder to give him the good news of having a son in that old age he was! When they told the Shaikh of Prophets their destinations, he showed anxiety for Lot and some other believers who were striving hard against devil in that damned land:-

      ``Abraham said to the angels:- ``But Lot is in there.''

      They said:- ``We know better who are in it. We will save him and his folk, except his wife.''

      When Abraham said so to the angels, possibily he should have thought that God would not destroy a people among whom there lives an apostle, and several true believers. But the angel assured him that they knew well the situation of the towns and that, who was who, in there.

      When the angels of God went to Lot, he became annoyed and distressed, but soon the angels consoled him and told him not to be afraid, nor grieve, that they would rescue him and his followers, and then punish the sinners.

      When Lot and his folk were delivered; a calamity from the heaven seized the sinful people. It began with a rain of brimstone, something like a volcanic eruption followed by an earthquake which overwhelmed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

      (We have written this incident in a greater detail in volume three of our Book, S 11-Page-188ِ198):-

      ``And verily we left out of it a clear sign for a people who care to understand.

      Allameh YUSUF ALI, has written in his commentary, here, that the whole tract on which the cities were situated at the bank of Dead Sea, which Arabs call the SEA OF LOT (BAHR-AL-LUT) is at present covered with Sulphurous salts, and is even now deadly to animals and plants.