Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: An-Naml, Ayah 54
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ
And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality while you are seeing?
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(And Lot!) We sent him to his people (when he said unto his folk: will you commit abomination) sodomy (knowingly) while knowing it to be an abomination?
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And Lot Lūtan is in the accusative because of an implied udhkur ‘mention’ before it and it Lūtan is substituted by the following idh qāla … when he said to his people ‘What! Do you commit such abomination namely homosexual intercourse while you watch? that is to say while you watch one another so engrossed are you in the sinful act?