Surat Hud (81-82)

{قَالُواْ يَا لُوطُ إِنَّا رُسُلُ رَبِّكَ لَن يَصِلُواْ إِلَيْكَ فَأَسْرِ بِأَهْلِكَ بِقِطْعٍ مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ وَلاَ يَلْتَفِتْ مِنكُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلاَّ امْرَأَتَكَ إِنَّهُ مُصِيبُهَا مَا أَصَابَهُمْ إِنَّ مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُ أَلَيْسَ الصُّبْحُ بِقَرِيبٍ} (هود : 81 )

81- The angels said to Lot (peace be upon him): O Lot, we are the angels of Allah and we were sent to inform you of the destruction of your disbelieving people, so do not be sad for they shall not be harmed. Walk with your family in the night and do not make one of them look behind, but go on in your way even if you hear about the severe punishment which inflicts your people. Leave out your wife and do not take her with you, for she liked the action of her people, therefore she shall be inflicted with torment.

The time of their destruction shall be in the morning, is not the morning near?

The time of morning is a time for rest and comfort, so torment shall be severer for them. This is an example for the heedless and lesson for the people of indecent deeds and homosexual people, indeed the torment of Allah is severer.

{فَلَمَّا جَاء أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ} (هود : 82 )

82- When Our Torment came, We turned their cities upside down leaving them under the earth, and We sent upon them stones of clay one after another.

The studies of earth sciences have proven that the layers of rocks in the southern region of the dead sea [which was the abode of Lot's people] were turned upside down as was mentioned in the Ayah.