إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةًۭ مِّن دُونِ ٱلنِّسَآءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌۭ مُّسْرِفُونَ
Innakum lataatoonar rijaala shahwatam min doonin nisaaa'; bal antumqawmum musrifoon
Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people."
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Lessons from past peoples
7:81Ayah 1206
88 ayahs in Al-A'raaf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
← Previous on Lessons from past peoples7:80And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, "Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds?Next on Lessons from past peoples →7:82But the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."
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Do you read a-innakum pronouncing both hamzas or by not pronouncing the second one but in both cases inserting an alif between the two; a variant reading has innakum ‘indeed you … ’ come lustfully to men instead of women? Nay you are a wanton folk’ transgressing the bounds going from what is lawful to what is unlawful.
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