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{ وَلُوطاً إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَاحِشَةَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ }

And Lot Lūtan is in the accusative because of an implied udhkur ‘mention’ before it and it Lūtan is substituted by the following idh qāla … when he said to his people ‘What! Do you commit such abomination namely homosexual intercourse while you watch? that is to say while you watch one another so engrossed are you in the sinful act?

Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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