So when Our command came.. [Hud 11:82-83]

Watch: 4mins onwards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCysR2YyxIs

فَلَمَّا جَاءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ

مُّسَوَّمَةً عِندَ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَمَا هِيَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ

[Surah Hud 11: 82-83]

Allah decided to destroy the nation of Lut [Lot] because of their evil, and opposition against His Messenger.

When Our decision came, We made the highest part (of their tall buildings) the lowest part. [Hud 11:82]

So at the time Allah prepared to destroy them - they now had nowhere to hide.

In an Earthquake, you find somewhere to hide, but they never had any place to hide. You're also supposed to lie down on the floor;

Then We started raining upon them stones from the sky, manDuwd (a full bucketful excessively thrown time after time, repeatedly).


Ayah 11:83:

Musawwamatun - Marked; specifically, intensively, repeatedly - (with every person who is being targeted's name marked upon it.

Like a sniper fire, targeting the individual people who have nowhere to hide.

What a horrible destruction! What a horrible ending.. a disastrous punishment to end this life for each individual enemy specifically, and a humiliating arrival to their next life. This is what Allah did with them evildoers.

وَمَا هِيَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ
'and they are not far from those who do wrong'

Allah is warning all of us listeners, especially those who first heard it (the Quraysh polytheists) that Allah's snipers are not far away from the wrongdoers...