سُوْرَةُ الشُّعَرَآءِ
Surah Ash-Shu'araa (26) — Ayah 120
ثُمَّ أَغْرَقْنَا بَعْدُ ٱلْبَاقِينَ ﴿120﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Then We drowned the rest (disbelievers) thereafter.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
ثُمَّ
thumma
Then
أَغْرَقْنَا
aghraqnā
We drowned
بَعْدُ
baʿdu
thereafter
ٱلْبَاقِينَ
l-bāqīna
the remaining ones
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
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.
