Sodom and the Dead Sea, Also Sodom, al-Mu'tafikat, Bahr Lut, the Salt Sea, the Dead Sea

SeaAlso Sodom, al-Mu'tafikat, Bahr Lut, the Salt Sea, the Dead Sea

Sodom and the Dead Seaالبحر الميت

The salt sea Arabs call Bahr Lut, beside which the towns of Lut's people were overturned.

Lut's towns were turned upside down and rained with stones of baked clay (11:82). The Arabs still call this sea, the lowest place on earth, Bahr Lut, the Sea of Lut. The Quran told Quraysh, who passed this way on their trade journeys, that they pass by the ruins morning and night (37:137-138).