The Ranks (Al-Saffat)
Verses 75-82 GROUP_1170 37.75-82
75
وَلَقَدْ نَادَانَا نُوحٌ فَلَنِعْمَ الْمُجِيبُونَ
Noah cried to Us, and how excellent was Our response!
76
وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ
We saved him and his people from great distress,
77
وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُ هُمْ الْبَاقِينَ
and We made his offspring the only survivors.
78
وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْآخِرِينَ
We left mention of him among later generations.
79
سَلَامٌ عَلَى نُوحٍ فِي الْعَالَمِينَ
Peace be upon Noah among all the peoples!
80
إِنَّا كَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ
That is how We recompense the righteous:
81
إِنَّهُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
he was truly one of Our faithful servants.
82
ثُمَّ أَغْرَقْنَا الْآخَرِينَ
We drowned the rest.
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Commentary
(a) When Noah’s own people turned against him, he called upon God to help him in his struggle with them. God helped him to steer clear of his difficulties. This indicates that when a subject of God calls out to Him, he receives a superlative response. But such response succeeds a tireless strife of the implorer. Noah had been trying to spread the message of God for about nine hundred and fifty years, exercising patience, wisdom and all along wishing well for his people. After a long period of time elapsed in this way, Noah finally called out to God for His succour. Noah’s opponents were utterly destroyed in a terrible flood: indeed, the whole race was wiped out. The succeeding generation came into existence through those few individuals who were saved along with him in his ark.