The Moon (Al-Qamar)
Verses 9-17 GROUP_1417 54.9-17
9
كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ فَكَذَّبُوا عَبْدَنَا وَقَالُوا مَجْنُونٌ وَازْدُجِرَ
The people of Noah denied [the truth] before them. They belied Our messenger saying, ‘He is mad!’ He was rebuffed,
10
فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنِّي مَغْلُوبٌ فَانتَصِرْ
so he cried out to his Lord, saying, ‘I am overcome, so help me!’
11
فَفَتَحْنَا أَبْوَابَ السَّمَاء بِمَاء مُّنْهَمِرٍ
So We opened the gates of the sky with water pouring down in torrents,
12
وَفَجَّرْنَا الْأَرْضَ عُيُونًا فَالْتَقَى الْمَاء عَلَى أَمْرٍ قَدْ قُدِرَ
and We caused the earth to burst with gushing springs: so that the waters met for a purpose which had been decreed.
13
وَحَمَلْنَاهُ عَلَى ذَاتِ أَلْوَاحٍ وَدُسُرٍ
We bore him on an [ark] which, made of planks and nails,
14
تَجْرِي بِأَعْيُنِنَا جَزَاء لِّمَن كَانَ كُفِرَ
floated on under Our eyes: a vindication of him who had been rejected.
15
وَلَقَد تَّرَكْنَاهَا آيَةً فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
We have left this as a sign: but will anyone take heed?
16
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ
How terrible then was My punishment and My warning.
17
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
We have made it easy to learn lessons from the Quran. Is there anyone who would receive admonition?
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Commentary
(a) The leaders of Noah’s community, consumed as they were by false prestige, were not prepared to accept Noah. The result was that they were afflicted by the retribution of God. This punishment came upon them in the shape of a terrible flood. The entire people and their dwellings were submerged in it. But, Noah and his companions, as commanded by God, boarded an ark. This vessel sailed forth and stopped at Mount Judi in the Mount Ararat range. Ararat is in Turkey. The highest mountain of the region, it rises to 16,853 ft. Certain aeroplane pilots claim that, while flying over the snow-covered Ararat peak, they have seen some boat-like thing caught up in the snow there. If this is correct, then just as the dead body of Pharaoh (of Moses’s period) was extracted from its pyramid in the late nineteenth century and became a sign of God (10:92), similarly perhaps Noah’s ark may be discovered and become a sign of God for mankind.