Dead Sea
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Where:
- i cried when water eventually got in my eyes and burned my contacts
- i spent like, 3 minutes in the water until i got bored
- i later found out that supposedly, makrooh to spend the night there becuase of this, which i found out later and found absolutely fascinating:
In Islamic tradition, the Dead Sea was about the land in which the Prophet Lut (Lot in the Hebrew scriptures) lived. His tribe had done wrong (act of homosexuality) and had therefore been given a punishment for such deeds. The punishment arrived when angels were sent down by Allah to Lut. The angels raised the land where the prophet's tribe lived and threw it back into the ground, causing the ground near the impact to cave in. Thus, the lowest land on Earth was formed because of this punishment. The sinners were destroyed and the followers were saved. According to some interpretation, the sura of ar-Rum of the Quran refers to the Dead Sea as the lowest place on earth [1].
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posted by Archeology Uncovered | 10:23 PM
3 Comments:
3ajeeeb even we can foat!
In our book, angelic messengers arrive (at Abraham's request, I think) to warn Lot, and the men try to break down the door to get at the men to use them sexually. Lot offers his daughters, rather than have his guests be taken, but the men refuse. The messengers then make them all sleep, and Lot and his family escape very early in the morning, before the destruction.
I never understood why Lot would offer his daughters to be ravished, it is horrifying, but a Moslem friend said no, he says "take my daughters" meaning have heterosexual relationships instead of homosexual relations. That makes a lot more sense.
sws:
the dead sea is gross and i never want to go back becuase it made me literally go "dude, THIS.IS.NOT.COOL!"
intlxpatr:
yes, yes!
exactly!
they were at Sodom and like, two angels come and the town's all like, 'we want' and he was all like, 'but dudes, my daughters are still like, virgins and will remain so becuase all of you dudes are gay' and so god was all like, sulfur rain and lot's wife turned around when she wasnt' supposed to and that's why she's a salt formation (or something) now.
and sorry for being so crass in my interpretation.... but that's how it happened in my head.
how very blasphemous of me.
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