Surah Anbiya ayat 76 Tafsir Quran 21:76

﴿وَنُوحًا إِذْ نَادَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ فَنَجَّيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ﴾
[ الأنبياء: 76]

21:76 And [mention] Noah, when he called [to Allah] before [that time], so We responded to him and saved him and his family from the great flood.

And mention Noah what follows Nūhan substitutes for it when he called when he supplicated to God against his people — with the words My Lord do not leave upon the earth any inhabitant from among the disbelievers … to the end of the verse Q. 7126 before that is before the time of Abraham and Lot. And We responded to him and delivered him and his people who were in the Ark with him from the great agony namely from drowning and his people’s denial of him.

And Nuh (Noah) who invoked Us aforetime and We responded favourably to his invocation and rescued him and delivered him together with his family from the distressful and overwhelming inundation

Nuh and His People Allah tells us how He responded to His servant and Messenger Nuh, peace be upon him, when he prayed to Him against his people for their disbelief in him: فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنُّى مَغْلُوبٌ فَانتَصِرْ ( Then he invoked his Lord (saying ): "I have been overcome, so help ( me )!") 54:10 وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لاَ تَذَرْ عَلَى الاٌّرْضِ مِنَ الْكَـفِرِينَ دَيَّاراً - إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّواْ عِبَادَكَ وَلاَ يَلِدُواْ إِلاَّ فَاجِراً كَفَّاراً ( And Nuh said: "My Lord! Leave not any inhabitant of the disbelievers on the earth! If You leave them, they will mislead Your servants, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers ) 71:26-27.
So Allah says here, إِذْ نَادَى مِن قَبْلُ فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ فَنَجَّيْنَـهُ وَأَهْلَهُ ( And (remember ) Nuh, when he cried ( to Us ) aforetime.
We answered to his invocation and saved him and his family) meaning, those who believed with him, as Allah says elsewhere: وَأَهْلَكَ إِلاَّ مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلُ وَمَنْ ءَامَنَ وَمَآ ءَامَنَ مَعَهُ إِلاَّ قَلِيلٌ ( ...and your family -- except him against whom the Word has already gone forth -- and those who believe.
And none believed with him, except a few ) 11: 40. مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ ( from the great dis- tress. ) meaning, from difficulty, rejection and harm.
For he remained among them for one thousand years less fifty, calling them to Allah, and no one had believed in him except for a few.
His people were plotting against him and advising one another century after century, generation after generation, to oppose him. وَنَصَرْنَـهُ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ ( We helped him against the people ) means, `We saved him and helped him against the people,' الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَايَـتِنَا إِنَّهُمْ كَانُواْ قَوْمَ سَوْءٍ فَأَغْرَقْنَـهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ ( who denied Our Ayat.
Verily, they were a people given to evil.
So We drowned them all. ) meaning, Allah drowned them all, and not one of them was left on the face of the earth, as their Prophet had prayed would happen to them. وَدَاوُودَ وَسُلَيْمَـنَ إِذْ يَحْكُمَانِ فِى الْحَرْثِ إِذْ نَفَشَتْ فِيهِ غَنَمُ الْقَوْمِ وَكُنَّا لِحُكْمِهِمْ شَـهِدِينَ

(21:76) And We blessed Noah with the same favour; remember that he had invoked Us *68 before those Prophets; We heard his prayer and delivered him and the people of his house from the great calamity *69

And [mention] Noah, when he called [to meaning

*68) This refers to Prophet Noah's prayer which he at last made after having tried his utmost to reform his people: " Lord, help me for I have been overpowered ".
( LIV: 10 ), and " Lord, do not leave even a single disbeliever on the earth. " ( LXXIx 26 ).

*69) " Great calamity " may either refer to living a miserable life among the wicked people, or to the Flood.
( For the story of Prophet Noah, see VII: 59-64; X: 72-74; X1: 25-48, and XVII: 3 and the E.N.'s thereof ).

 

Nuh and His People Allah tells us how He responded to His servant and Messenger Nuh, peace be upon him, when he prayed to Him against his people for their disbelief in him: فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنُّى مَغْلُوبٌ فَانتَصِرْ ( Then he invoked his Lord (saying ): "I have been overcome, so help ( me )!") 54:10 وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لاَ تَذَرْ عَلَى الاٌّرْضِ مِنَ الْكَـفِرِينَ دَيَّاراً - إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّواْ عِبَادَكَ وَلاَ يَلِدُواْ إِلاَّ فَاجِراً كَفَّاراً ( And Nuh said: "My Lord! Leave not any inhabitant of the disbelievers on the earth! If You leave them, they will mislead Your servants, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers ) 71:26-27.
So Allah says here, إِذْ نَادَى مِن قَبْلُ فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ فَنَجَّيْنَـهُ وَأَهْلَهُ ( And (remember ) Nuh, when he cried ( to Us ) aforetime.
We answered to his invocation and saved him and his family) meaning, those who believed with him, as Allah says elsewhere: وَأَهْلَكَ إِلاَّ مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلُ وَمَنْ ءَامَنَ وَمَآ ءَامَنَ مَعَهُ إِلاَّ قَلِيلٌ ( ...and your family -- except him against whom the Word has already gone forth -- and those who believe.
And none believed with him, except a few ) 11: 40. مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ ( from the great dis- tress. ) meaning, from difficulty, rejection and harm.
For he remained among them for one thousand years less fifty, calling them to Allah, and no one had believed in him except for a few.
His people were plotting against him and advising one another century after century, generation after generation, to oppose him. وَنَصَرْنَـهُ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ ( We helped him against the people ) means, `We saved him and helped him against the people,' الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَايَـتِنَا إِنَّهُمْ كَانُواْ قَوْمَ سَوْءٍ فَأَغْرَقْنَـهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ ( who denied Our Ayat.
Verily, they were a people given to evil.
So We drowned them all. ) meaning, Allah drowned them all, and not one of them was left on the face of the earth, as their Prophet had prayed would happen to them. وَدَاوُودَ وَسُلَيْمَـنَ إِذْ يَحْكُمَانِ فِى الْحَرْثِ إِذْ نَفَشَتْ فِيهِ غَنَمُ الْقَوْمِ وَكُنَّا لِحُكْمِهِمْ شَـهِدِينَ

( And Noah ) We also honoured him with prophethood, ( when he cried ) when he prayed to his Lord to destroy his people ( of old ) before Lot, ( We heard his prayer and saved him and his household ) as well as those who believed in him ( from the great affliction ) i.e. from drowning.

And (remember) Nuh (Noah), when he cried (to Us) aforetime. We listened to his invocation and saved him and his family from great distress.

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