*The term Rabb and Rububiyyah of Allah (azza wajal)*
Part - 5 👈
❖❐ The People of Lut (alaihe wa sallam)
❐ The next in historical order are the people of Sodom, the task of whose reformation was entrusted to Ibrahim's nephew, Lut (alaihe wa sallam).
❐ From the Qur'an we know about these people too that while they neither denied the existence of Allah nor His being the Creator and the Rabb in the first and the second senses of the word,
❐ they refused to acknowledge Him as such in the third, fourth, and fifth senses, and also repudiated the authority of the Prophet Lut as His trusted representative to lay down the law for their conduct.
❐ What they wanted was to be left to do as they pleased, and this was their real crime and the reason for their bringing Allah's wrath upon their heads. This is what the Qur'an says about them:
❖ "When their kinsman Lut said to them: Will you not fear Allah? Look! I am a trusted messenger to you (from Allah). Therefore (believe what I say and) try to save yourselves from Divine wrath, and do as I tell you, I ask no regard for myself, because my reward lies with Allah.
❖ Do you, unlike the whole of the rest of humanity, turn to boys (for your Sexual satisfaction) and leave aside the wives your Rabb has created for you for the purpose? Surely, you are the worst of wrong-doers." [ash-Shura 26/161-166]
❐ Obviously these words can have only been addressed to a people who did not deny the existence of Allah or His being the Creator and the Provider.
❐ And that is why they did not counter by asking who was Allah, or how could He claim to be the Creator, or how did He become their Rabb. What they did say instead was:
❖ "Listen, Lut, if you do not stop your preachings, you will surely find yourself turned out from the land." [ash-Shura 26/167]
❐ In another place, the matter is put in the following words:
❖ "And (we sent) Lut (to his people as Our messenger and) when he said to them: You commit an obscenity which no one in the world has ever committed before.
❖ You satisfy your sexual urge with boys, commit highway robberies, and openly indulge in obscenities in your gatherings. Their only answer was:
❖ If you are so right in what you say, then bring down the wrath of Allah upon our heads."
[al-Ankabut 29/28-29]
❐ Can these words have been uttered by a people who did not believe in the existence of Allah. Clearly, their real crime was not the denial of His being the Ilah and the Rabb but that,
❐ while believing in Him to be both in the supernatural sense, they refused to follow His law and to accept the guidance of His messenger in the moral, social, and cultural spheres.
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