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15:65

فَأَسۡرِ بِأَهۡلِكَ بِقِطۡعٖ مِّنَ ٱلَّيۡلِ وَٱتَّبِعۡ أَدۡبَٰرَهُمۡ وَلَا يَلۡتَفِتۡ مِنكُمۡ أَحَدٞ وَٱمۡضُواْ حَيۡثُ تُؤۡمَرُونَ

Faasri biahlika biqitAAin mina allayli waittabiAA adbarahum wala yaltafit minkum ahadun waimdoo haythu tumaroona

So set out with your family during a portion of the night and follow behind them and let not anyone among you look back and continue on to where you are commanded."

Word by word
  1. فَأَسۡرِSo travel
  2. بِأَهۡلِكَwith your family
  3. بِقِطۡعٖin a portion
  4. مِّنَof
  5. ٱلَّيۡلِthe night
  6. وَٱتَّبِعۡand follow
  7. أَدۡبَٰرَهُمۡtheir backs
  8. وَلَاand not
  9. يَلۡتَفِتۡlet look back
  10. مِنكُمۡamong you
  11. أَحَدٞanyone
  12. وَٱمۡضُواْand go on
  13. حَيۡثُwhere
  14. تُؤۡمَرُونَyou are ordered
Al-Hijr · 15:65Makkah

Walk behind your family, and do not look back.

Leaving at night, with eyes forward

The instructions
the familywalks in front
Lutin the rear, protecting
and
looking backdo not turn around
Where the leader walks
in frontfirst to safety
at the backguarding the weak

The angels told Lut to leave in part of the night and walk behind his family to protect them. Ibn Kathir says the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would walk in the rear of the army to help the weak. And no one was to turn back toward the town.

The family is moving cities, or leaving a bad situation. You are the one who makes sure the youngest is not left behind, and you stop scrolling the old life's photos. Protect the people with you. Keep walking.

A leader goes first and gets out first.

The one in charge walks at the back, guarding the weak, and keeps eyes forward.

Try this

Today, be the last one to leave a gathering, making sure everyone is home or helped.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

"Then travel for a portion of the night with your family, and you go behind them in the rear, and let no one amongst you look back, but go on to where you are ordered. (65)And We made this decree known to him that those (sinners) would be rooted out in the early morning (66)

Lut is ordered to leave with His Family during the Night

Allah tells us that His angels ordered Lut to set out after part of the night had passed. They told him to walk behind them, to protect them. Similarly, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would walk in the rear of the army on military campaigns, in order to help the weak and carry those who had no means of transport.

وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنكُمْ أَحَدٌ

(and let no one amongst you look back,) meaning - when you hear the people screaming from their torment, do not turn around to look at them; leave them to face whatever punishment and vengeance is coming to them.

وَامْضُوا حَيْثُ تُؤْمَرُونَ

(but go on to where you are ordered.) - it is as if they had a guide with them to show them the way.

وَقَضَيْنَا إِلَيْهِ ذَٰلِكَ الْأَمْرَ

(And We made this decree known to him) meaning - We already told him about that.

أَنَّ دَابِرَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ مَقْطُوعٌ مُّصْبِحِينَ

(that those (sinners) would be rooted out in the early morning.) meaning in the morning, as in another Ayah:

إِنَّ مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُ ۚ أَلَيْسَ الصُّبْحُ بِقَرِيبٍ

(Indeed, morning is their appointed time. Is not the morning near?)[11:81]