Surah 15 Al-Hijr — Ayah 65
فَأَسْرِ بِأَهْلِكَ بِقِطْعٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱتَّبِعْ أَدْبَٰرَهُمْ وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنكُمْ أَحَدٌۭ وَٱمْضُوا۟ حَيْثُ تُؤْمَرُونَ
それで夜の明けない間に，あなたの家族と一緒に旅立ちなさい。そしてあなたは皆の一番後から着いていき，あなたがたの誰も後ろを振り向かせてはならない。只，命じられた通りに実行しなさい。」
fa-asri bi-ahlika biqiṭ'ʿin mina al-layli wa-ittabiʿ adbārahum walā yaltafit minkum aḥadun wa-im'ḍū ḥaythu tu'marūna
Word by word
- فَأَسْرِ fa-asri So travel
- بِأَهْلِكَ bi-ahlika with your family
- بِقِطْعٍۢ biqiṭ'ʿin in a portion
- مِّنَ mina of
- ٱلَّيْلِ al-layli the night
- وَٱتَّبِعْ wa-ittabiʿ and follow
- أَدْبَـٰرَهُمْ adbārahum their backs
- وَلَا walā and not
- يَلْتَفِتْ yaltafit let look back
- مِنكُمْ minkum among you
- أَحَدٌۭ aḥadun anyone
- وَٱمْضُوا۟ wa-im'ḍū and go on
- حَيْثُ ḥaythu where
- تُؤْمَرُونَ tu'marūna you are ordered
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Lut is ordered to leave with His Family during the Night
Allah tells us that His angels ordered Lut to set out after part of the night had passed. They told him to walk behind them, to protect them. Similarly, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would walk in the rear of the army on military campaigns, in order to help the weak and carry those who had no means of transport.
وَلاَ يَلْتَفِتْ مِنكُمْ أَحَدٌ
(and let no one amongst you look back,) meaning - when you hear the people screaming from their torment, do not turn around to look at them; leave them to face whatever punishment and vengeance is coming to them.
وَامْضُواْ حَيْثُ تُؤْمَرُونَ
(but go on to where you are ordered.) - it is as if they had a guide with them to show them the way.
وَقَضَيْنَآ إِلَيْهِ ذَلِكَ الاٌّمْرَ
(And We made this decree known to him) meaning - We already told him about that.
أَنَّ دَابِرَ هَـؤُلآْءِ مَقْطُوعٌ مُّصْبِحِينَ
(that those (sinners) would be rooted out in the early morning.) meaning in the morning, as in another Ayah:
إِنَّ مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُ أَلَيْسَ الصُّبْحُ بِقَرِيبٍ
(Indeed, morning is their appointed time. Is not the morning near) 11:81