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Lot's daughters. The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him children. Only two daughters are explicitly mentioned in Genesis, both unnamed.
t. e. Lut ( Arabic: لوط, romanized : Lūṭ, [luːtˁ] ), also known as Lot in the Old Testament, is a prophet and messenger of God in the Qur'an. [ 1][ 2] According to Islamic tradition, Lut was born to Haran and spent his younger years in Ur, later migrating to Canaan with his uncle Abraham. [ 3] He was sent to the cities of Sodom and ...
At-Taḥrīm ( Arabic: التحريم, "Banning, Prohibition") is the 66th Surah or chapter of the Quran and contains 12 verses ( ayah ). [1] This Surah deals with questions regarding Muhammad's wives. [2] [3] The Surah's name is derived from the words lima tuharrimu of the first verse. This is not a title of its subject matter, but the name ...
Islam portal. v. t. e. Ash-Shu‘ara’[ 1] ( Arabic: الشعراء, ’ash-shu‘arā’; meaning: The Poets) is the 26th chapter ( sūrah) of the Qurʾan with 227 verses ( āyāt ). Many of these verses are very short. The chapter is named from the word Ash-Shu'ara in ayat 224. [ 2] It is also the longest Meccan surah according to the number ...
e. Women in the Quran are important characters and subjects of discussion included in the stories and morals taught in Islam. Most of the women in the Quran are represented as either mothers or wives of leaders or prophets. They retained a certain amount of autonomy from men in some respects; for example, the Quran describes women who converted ...
List of chapters in the Quran. Al-Fatiha, the first surah in the Quran. The Quran is divided into 114 surahs (chapters), and 6,236 ayahs (verses). Chapters are arranged broadly in descending order of length. For a preliminary discussion about the chronological order of chapters, see Surah . Each surah except the ninth ( At-Tawba) is preceded by ...
Lot's wife. In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in Genesis 19. The Book of Genesis describes how she became a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom (the "looking taboo" motif in mythology and folklore). She is not named in the Bible, but is called Ado or Edith in some Jewish traditions.
Ar-Rum (Arabic: الروم, romanized: ’ar-rūm, lit. 'The Romans') is the 30th chapter of the Quran, consisting of 60 verses ().The term Rūm originated in the word Roman, and during the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, it referred to the Eastern Roman Empire; the title is also sometimes translated as "The Greeks" or "The Byzantines".