وَتَرَكْنَا فِيهَآ ءَايَةً لِّلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَلِيمَ Qur’an Az-Zariyat (51:37)Watarakna feeha ayatan lillatheena yakhafoona alAAathaba alaleema
I.e., in the utter destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The ruins of Sodom.
The Grievous Chastisement: that is, the Final Judgment. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in this life is taken as the type of the Final Judgment. The vestiges can be seen-as a Sign and a Warning-in the sulphury plain round the Dead Sea: Cf. xv. 79.