He said, "O my people have you considered: if I should be (11:28)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

Nuh said: My people pause here and think, and think but this: What if Allah has enlightened my thoughts and my innermost being and imparted to me knowledge, wisdom and spiritual light and extended to me His mercy to which you are blind on account of lacking intellectual and spiritual light! Shall we, he added, impose on you such spiritual enlightenment when you are prejudiced against it

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(11:28) Noah said: 'My people! If I base myself on a clear evidence from my Lord, and I have also been blessed by His mercy *34 to which you have been blind, how can we force it upon you despite your aversion to it?

He said, "O my people have you considered: if I should be meaning

*34). This amounts to virtually repeating the statement mentioned earlier (see verse 17 and n. 17 ff. above). The statement suggested that the Prophet (peace be on him) had reached the stage of affirming the unity of God as a result of his own reflection. Whereafter, God favoured him by designating him a Prophet and providing him with direct knowledge of the truths about which his heart was already convinced.
This also shows that the Prophets attain belief regarding the realm of the Unseen before they are appointed to the office of prophethood. When they are subsequently designated Prophets, they are endowed with faith in the truths belonging to the realm of the Unseen as a result of direct knowledge of those truths.
 

He said, "O my people have you considered: if I should be meaning in Urdu

اس نے کہا "اے برادران قوم، ذرا سوچو تو سہی کہ اگر میں اپنے رب کی طرف سے ایک کھلی شہادت پر قائم تھا اور پھر اس نے مجھ کو اپنی خاص رحمت سے بھی نواز دیا مگر وہ تم کو نظر نہ آئی تو آخر ہمارے پاس کیا ذریعہ ہے کہ تم ماننا نہ چاہو اور ہم زبردستی اس کو تمہارے سر چپیک دیں؟