Surah Al-A'raaf · سُوْرَةُ الْاَعْرَافِ · Juz 8
Q 7:82
وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓا۟ أَخْرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرْيَتِكُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ
Translations
But the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."Et pour toute réponse, son peuple ne fit que dire: «Expulsez-les de votre cité. Ce sont des gens qui veulent se garder purs!»Tafsir
His people, who committed this shameless wrong which they had been forbidden from doing, only responded by turning away from the truth, saying: 'Drive Lot and his followers out of your city. They are a people who have kept away from this action of ours, so it is not befitting that they stay living here among us.'
Read Ibn Kathir (Ibn Kathir (abridged, English))
And the answer of his people was only that they said: "Drive them out of your town, these are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins)! (82)
So they answered Prophet Lut by trying to expel and banish him from their village, along with those who believed with him. Allah indeed removed Prophet Lut safely from among them, and He destroyed them in their land in disgrace and humiliation. They said (about Lut and the believers):
إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ
("These are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins)!")
Qatadah commented, "They shamed them (Lut and the believers) with what is not a shame at all." Mujahid commented, "(Lut's people said about Lut and the believers,) They are a people who want to be pure from men's anuses and women's anuses!" Similar was narrated from Ibn 'Abbas.
Arabic text: Tanzil (Uthmani). Translations: Sahih International (en), Muhammad Hamidullah (fr). tanzil.net