Al-Furqan 25:37 وقوم نوح لما كذبوا الرسل اغرقناهم وجعلناهم للناس اية واعتدنا للظالمين عذابا اليما ٣٧

25:37

وَقَوۡمَ

نُوحٖ

لَّمَّا

كَذَّبُواْ

ٱلرُّسُلَ

أَغۡرَقۡنَٰهُمۡ

وَجَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ

لِلنَّاسِ

ءَايَةٗۖ

وَأَعۡتَدۡنَا

لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ

عَذَابًا

أَلِيمٗا

٣٧

And when the people of Noah rejected the messengers,¹ We drowned them, making them an example to humanity. And We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers.

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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Frightening the Idolators of Quraysh

Allah threatens the idolators who denied and opposed His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ and He warns them of the punishment and painful torment He sent upon the previous nations who rejected their Messengers. Allah begins by mentioning Musa, upon him be peace, whom He sent

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Frightening the Idolators of Quraysh

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Chapter 25, Page 363, Juz 19

35. We certainly gave Moses the Book and appointed his brother Aaron as his helper. 36. We had ordered ˹them˺, “Go to the people who would deny Our signs.” Then We annihilated the deniers entirely. 37. And when the people of Noah rejected the messengers, We drowned them, making them an example to humanity. And We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers. 38. Also ˹We destroyed˺ ’Ȃd, Thamûd, and the people of the Water-pit, as well as many peoples in between. 39. For each We set forth ˹various˺ lessons, and We ultimately destroyed each. 40. They have certainly passed by the city ˹of Sodom˺, which had been showered with a dreadful rain ˹of stones˺. Have they not seen its ruins? But they do not expect to be resurrected. 41. When they see you ˹O Prophet˺, they only make fun of you, ˹saying,˺ “Is this the one that Allah has sent as a messenger? 42. He would have almost tricked us away from our gods, had we not been so devoted to them.” ˹But˺ soon they will know, when they face the punishment, who is far astray from the ˹Right˺ Way. 43. Have you seen ˹O Prophet˺ the one who has taken their own desires as their god? Will you then be a keeper over them? 44. Or do you think that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle—no, more than that, they are astray from the ˹Right˺ Way!

- Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran