سُوْرَةُ الشُّعَرَآءِ

Surah Ash-Shu'araa (26) — Ayah 120

The Poets · Meccan · Juz 19 · Page 372

ثُمَّ أَغْرَقْنَا بَعْدُ ٱلْبَاقِينَ ﴿120﴾
Then We drowned the rest (disbelievers) thereafter.
ثُمَّ thumma Then
أَغْرَقْنَا aghraqnā We drowned
بَعْدُ baʿdu thereafter
ٱلْبَاقِينَ l-bāqīna the remaining ones

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120-1. These details have already been mentioned earlier and some will come later as well, that despite the nine hundred and fifty years of preaching by Hazrat Nuh ؑ, the people of his nation persisted in immorality and aversion. Eventually, Hazrat Nuh ؑ invoked a curse, Allah Almighty commanded him to build an ark and to place believing humans, animals, and necessary provisions in it, and thus the believers were saved while all the rest, even his wife and son who did not believe, were drowned.

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And afterward, We drowned the rest [80].

[80] The mention of Noah's Ark and the Flood of Noah has already passed in Surah Al-A'raf verse 64, Surah Yunus verses 71 and 73, and Surah Hud verses 38 and 43. Please refer to the relevant footnotes.