قَالُوٓا۟ أَوَلَمْ نَنْهَكَ عَنِ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
Qaalooo awalam nanhaka 'anil 'aalameen
وہ بولے کیا ہم نے تم کو سارے جہان (کی حمایت وطرفداری) سے منع نہیں کیا
They said, "Have we not forbidden you from taking in anyone at all?"
The mob answers hospitality with a prior injunction: they had already forbidden Lut from sheltering anyone, so what is happening at his door follows a standing policy rather than a sudden impulse. Al-ʿālamīn in their question is sweeping, the whole world of people, and it shows a town that had made receiving a stranger an offence, and Lut resisting it long enough to have been warned once before.