Surat Hud (77-78)

{وَلَمَّا جَاءتْ رُسُلُنَا لُوطاً سِيءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعاً وَقَالَ هَـذَا يَوْمٌ عَصِيبٌ} (هود : 77)

77- When Our Angels came to Lot (peace be upon him) in the shape of young people of beautiful faces, he was terrified and feared that his people would see and harm them, then he said: This is a severe day. He said that for fear of an expected evil.

{وَجَاءهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَمِن قَبْلُ كَانُواْ يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ هَـؤُلاء بَنَاتِي هُنَّ أَطْهَرُ لَكُمْ فَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَلاَ تُخْزُونِ فِي ضَيْفِي أَلَيْسَ مِنكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَّشِيدٌ} (هود: 78)

78- The people of Lot had come to him while he was sitting at his house with his guests. They came in hurry out of their joy with those young men. They were homosexual people who used to do bad actions with men. Thereupon, Lot (peace be upon him) said to them: O my people, these are my daughters, marry them for they are more pure than committing that bad action. It was mentioned that marrying between believers and disbelievers was permissible in the past before it is prohibited.

Or he said it metaphorically to make them ashamed of their bad action and leave out his guests.

Some scholars said that the meaning of daughters was the women of his people because Prophets are the fathers of their peoples, so all women were like his daughters, by this he guided them to what is useful in the world and in the Hereafter.

He said to them: Fear Allah by leaving out bad actions and do not expose me before my guests; is not there a good person among you who may be guided to the truth?!