Turned Upside Down

Lūṭ left under the darkness of night, with his daughters, with his family. Early in the morning, with sunrise, when Lūṭ is already away from Sadūm (he walked away), suddenly al-ṣayḥah, the awful cry, attacked the people of Lūṭ.

And then the angel Jibrīl transformed out of this human form into his original angelic form. Jibrīl, who was in the form of a man, came out in his angelic form, to fill the horizon with 700 wings^****. And then Jibrīl (peace be upon him), with the tip of his wing — with the tip of his wing, not with the whole wing, with the tip of his wing — scraped up the whole town of the people of Lūṭ, and raised them up in the sky, and then flipped them upside down, and smashed them back to earth. And then Allah (swt) sent on them stones. Everyone received a stone with his name.

Allah (swt) has never, ever combined such a punishment on any people in history. They were afflicted with the awful cry. And then they were raised up and turned upside down. And then they received missiles from the sky, to destroy them all, and to exterminate them from the face of the earth.

Allah (swt) says: fa-akhadhathumu al-ṣayḥatu mushriqīn, fa-jaʿalnā ʿāliyahā sāfilahā wa amṭarnā ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min sijjīl, inna fī dhālika la-āyātin li-l-mutawassimīn. The awful cry overtook them at the time of sunrise, and We turned them upside down, and rained down on them stones of baked clay. Surely, in this are signs for those who see.