Al-Hijr
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[15:70]
They answered: "Have we not forbidden thee [to offer protection] to any kind of people?"

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* v.70 : Lit., “all people” (al-‘ālamīn): obviously, because Lot was a stranger in Sodom – having come there from Mesopotamia, his and Abraham’s country of origin (see sūrah 11, note 102) – and had previously aroused the ire of the Sodomites by his moral reproaches (cf. 7:80-82).