” My Lord, Save me and my family from [the consequence of] what they do.”

رَبِّ نَجِّنِي وَأَهْلِي مِمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ

Rabbi najjinee wa-ahlee mimmaa ya’maloon

Surah Ash-Shuara, verse 169

This is the prayer of Prophet Lut Alaihissalaam.

This dua can be recited for:-

• Victory and success
• Protection from your enemies and the wrong-doers
• To seek Allah’s Protection for yourself and your family

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Here Allah tells us about His servant and Messenger Lut, peace be upon him. He was Lut bin Haran bin Azar, the nephew of Ibrahim Al-Khalil, upon him be peace. Allah sent him to a mighty nation during the lifetime of Ibrahim, peace be upon them both. They lived in Sadum (Sodom) and its environs, where Allah destroyed them and turned the area into a putrid, stinking lake, which is well-known in the land of Al-Ghur the Jordan Valley, bordering the mountains of Jerusalem, between the mountains and the land of Al-Karak and Ash-Shawbak.

He called them to Allah, to worship Him alone with no partner or associate, and to obey the Messenger whom Allah sent to them. He forbade from disobeying Allah and committing the sin that they had invented which was unknown on earth before their time; intercourse with males instead of with females.

Their response was only to say:

(167. They said: “If you cease not, O Lut, verily, you will be one of those who are driven out!”)

(168. He said: “I am indeed of those who disapprove with severe anger and fury your behavior.”)

Then he prayed to Allah against them and said:

(169. “My Lord! Save me and my family from what they do.”)

Allah says: (170. So, We saved him and his family, all,) (171. Except an old woman among those who remained behind.)

This was his wife, who was a bad old woman. She stayed behind and was destroyed with whoever else was left. This is similar to what Allah says about them in Surat Al-A`raf and Surah Hud, and in Surat Al-Hijr, where Allah commanded him to take his family at night, except for his wife, and not to turn around when they heard the Sayhah as it came upon his people. So they patiently obeyed the command of Allah and persevered, and Allah sent upon the people a punishment which struck them all, and rained upon them stones of baked clay, piled up.