"İnsan bilmediği şeye el uzatmamalı,
"El uzatıyorsa bilmeyi göze almalı,
"Bilmeyi göze almak zordur İlyas;
"Bilmek ürkütür insanı, korkutur. Bilmek lanetlenmektir biraz da..."
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.