Al-Kafi 10296

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Saeed who said, ‘Zakariyya Bin Muhammad informed me, from his father, from Amro, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws having said: ‘The people of Lut^as were from the best of the people Created by Allah^azwj. So Iblees^la sought them with an intense seeking, and from their merits and their goodness was that whenever they went to the work, they went out altogether, and the women would remain behind them. So Iblees^la would not cease to transgress them, So when they would return, Iblees^la would have spoil whatever they had worked. So some of them said to the others, ‘Come, let us observe this one who is spoiling our provisions. So they observed, and there was a boy as good looking as can be from the boys. So they said to him, ‘You are the one who is spoiling our provisions time after time’. So they formed a consensus upon killing him. So they lodged him for the night with a man. So when it was the night, he shrieked. So the man said, ‘What is the matter with you?’ So he said, ‘My father used to sleep me upon his belly’. So he said to him, ‘Come, so sleep upon my belly’. So he did not cease to massage the man until he taught him that he should do it with himself. Thus the first one to do it was Iblees^la, and the second one to do it was him. Then he crept away and fled from them. And the morning came, so the man went over informing with what he had done with the boy and he astounded them from it, and they were not understanding it. So they placed their hands in it, indulging in it, until the men sufficed themselves with the men, with each other. Then they went on looking out for the passers by on the road, so they would be doing it with them until they had plagued the people of their cities. Then they neglected their women and faced towards the boys. So when he^la saw that his^la matter had prevailed among the men, he^la went to the women. So he^la changed himself^la into a woman, so he^la said, ‘Your men are doing it to each other’. They said, ‘Yes, we have seen that’. And everytime Lut^as advised them, Iblees^la would stray them until the women sufficed themselves with the women. So when the argument was completed upon them, Allah^azwj Sent Jibraeel^as and Mikaeel^as, and Israfeel^as in the form of boys wearing gowns. So they^as passed by Lut^as and he^as was farming, so he^as said: ‘Where are you^as intending to go. I^as have not seen anyone more good-looking than you^as’. They^as said, ‘Our^as Master^azwj has Sent us^as to the lord of this city’. He^as said: ‘Has it not reached your^as Master^azwj of what the people of this city are doing? O my^as sons! By Allah^azwj, they are taking to the men, so they are doing it with them until the blood comes out’. Our^as Master^azwj has Commanded us^as that we^as pass through the middle of it’. He^as said: ‘There is a need of mine^as to you^as’. They said, ‘And what is it?’ He^as said: ‘Await over here until the crossing over of the darkness’. He^asws said: ‘So they were seated. So he^as sent for his^as daughter saying, ‘Come to me with some bread for them, and come to me with some water for them in the gourd, and come to me with a cloak for them to cover themselves with from the cold’. So when the daughter went, and they faced the rain and the valley. So Lut^as said: ‘(This is) the time they go with the young boys of the valley. Arise until we pass by’, and Lut^as went on to walk in the base of the wall, and Jibraeel^as and Mikaeel^as and Israfeel^as were walking in the middle of the road. So he^as said: ‘O my^as sons, walk over here’. So they^as said: ‘Our^as Master^azwj has Commanded us^as to walk in the middle of it’. And Lut^as wanted to benefit from the darkness. And Iblees^la passed by and seized a child from the lap of a woman and dropped it in the well. So the people of the city gathered, all of them at the door of Lut^as. So when they looked at the boys in the house of Lut^as, they said, ‘O Lut^as! You^as have (also) entered into our deeds’. So he^as said: ‘<span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:15#h68"><a href="/books/quran:15#h68">[15:68]</a></a> He said: Surely these are my guests, therefore do not disgrace me</span> regarding my^as guests’. They said, ‘They are three of them, so take one and give us two’. He^asws said: ‘So he^as entered them into the chamber and said, ‘If there was a family for me^as, they would have defended me^as from you all’. He^asws said: ‘And they shoved upon the door and broke the door of Lut^as, and floored Lut^as. So Jibraeel^as said to him^as: ‘<span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:11#h81"><a href="/books/quran:11#h81">[11:81]</a></a> We are the Messengers of your Lord; they will never be able to reach you</span>’, So he^as took a handful of soil from Bat’ha and sturk their faces with it, and said: ‘The faces be ugly!’ So the people of the city became blind, all of them, and Lut^as said to them^as: ‘O messengers of my^as Lord^azwj! So what did my^as Lord^azwj Command you^as with regarding them?’ They said, ‘He^azwj Commanded us^asws that we^as should seize them at dawn’. He^as said: ‘There is a need of mine^as to you all^as’. They said, ‘And what is your^as need’. He^as said: ‘Seize them at this time, for I^as fear that my^as Lord^azwj may Change (His^azwj Command) regarding them’. So they said: ‘O Lut^as! <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:11#h81"><a href="/books/quran:11#h81">[11:81]</a></a> surely their appointed time is the morning; is not the morning near </span>for the one whom He^azwj Intends to Seize? Take your^as daughters but leave your^as wife (as she will be among those who will be punished)’. So Abu Ja’far^asws said: ‘May Allah^azwj have Mercy on Lut^as. Had he^as known the ones who were with him^as in the chamber, he^as would have known that he^as is Supported, where he^as was saying <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:11#h80"><a href="/books/quran:11#h80">[11:80]</a></a> He said: Ah! If only I had power to suppress you, rather I shall have recourse to a strong support</span>’ i.e., strong recourse from Jibraeel^as with him^as in the chamber. So Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Said to Muhammad^asws <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:11#h83"><a href="/books/quran:11#h83">[11:83]</a></a> and it is not far off from the unjust</span> from the unjust ones of your^as community that they should known what the people of Lut^as did. And Rasool-Allah^asws said: ‘The one who persists in copulating with the men will not died until he invites the men to himself’.

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