The Creator swears by whom He wills and by what He wills, as for the creature then it is not permissible for him the swearing except by Allah, and Allah the Exalted has surely sworn by the life of Muhammad peace and blessings of Allah be upon him as an honoring for him. Indeed the people of Lot are in a severe heedlessness they waver and they persist, until the thunderbolt of the punishment descended upon them at the time of the rising of the sun.