Continuation of the explanation of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And when Our messengers came to Lut, he was distressed by them and his chest was tight with them, and they said: Do not fear and do not grieve. We will save you and your family, except your wife.”

We have explained this and clarified that is conditional and is superfluous. His saying: is the answer to , and is a past tense verb built for the passive, with the agent substituting for the subject referring back to , meaning that distress occurred to him. His saying: the preposition "bi" indicates causality, meaning because of them.
The student: ...

The Shaykh : A passive verb does not take the place of an active verb unless it is impossible... It is currently a transitive verb, but if you make the preposition and its noun the passive subject, yes, then you have made it transitive, because the passive subject means that it was originally an object. So the meaning of "they were distressed by them" is that he, that is, Lut, was not distressed or afflicted by evil. As for "sa'a" (to be distressed), it is originally transitive, as you say, "This matter distressed me," ... "This news distressed me," yes, just as you say, "This pleased me." Is that clear? Yes, good. His saying: What is the parsing of ? This is a *tamyiz* (distinguishing noun) converted from the subject. And *tamyiz*, as we have passed, can be converted from the subject or from the object. An example of one converted from the object is His saying, the Exalted: but you say, for example: "His chest expanded for them," meaning his chest. Here, "his patience was exhausted by them." Its original form is "his patience was exhausted by them." And what is *dhir'ah* (patience)? The author explained it as the chest, saying: meaning the chest " meaning his chest was not expanded for them, but rather he was grieved and worried by it. It was said, and this is the correct view, that *dhir'ah* means capacity, so his capacity was exhausted by them and he became unable to bear them. This is its meaning in the Arabic language. And capacity is called *dhir'ah* from *dhi'* (arm) because the arm is the place of carrying, and capacity is what enables a person to carry or not carry a thing. He said:

and felt for them great discomfort

وضاق بهم ذرعا

[Hud 11:77]

The reason is that they were handsome in appearance in the form of guests, so he feared for his people, so they informed him that they were messengers of his Lord " This is the reason that he was distressed by them, because his people, as Allah mentioned in another verse, when they heard about it, came to him rushing, meaning hurrying—may Allah protect us—desiring these guests. And this is from the trial of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, for the servant, to make the things forbidden to him in a form that his soul desires, so that Allah may know who fears Him in secret. So they—may Allah protect us—when these came, they came to Lut desiring them. So he used to say to them: "These are my daughters; they are purer for you. So fear Allah and do not disgrace me in my guests. Is there not among you a man of sound judgment?" So he was distressed by them out of fear for them from his people, because his people, as Allah, the Exalted, said, are people of depravity [Al-Anbiya: 74], so he feared them. But they said to him: Fear is for what is expected to happen in the future, and sadness is for what has occurred in the past. Yes, they said: And sadness can be applied to the future, and they gave as an example the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to Abu Bakr: Because here means "do not fear," on the condition that it is possible that it is in its original place and that you should not be sad about what happened of our exiting and entering the cave.