Surah 21:76

"And Noah – when he called out before (that), and We responded to him, and rescued him and his family from great distress."

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Nuh and His People Verses 21:76-77

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Verse 76

وَنُوحًا إِذۡ نَادَىٰ مِن قَبۡلُ فَٱسۡتَجَبۡنَا لَهُۥ فَنَجَّيۡنَٰهُ وَأَهۡلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلۡكَرۡبِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ

And Noah – when he called out before (that), and We responded to him, and rescued him and his family from great distress.

Verse 77

وَنَصَرۡنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآۚ إِنَّهُمۡ كَانُواْ قَوۡمَ سَوۡءٖ فَأَغۡرَقۡنَٰهُمۡ أَجۡمَعِينَ

We helped him against the people who called Our signs a lie. Surely they were an evil people, and so We drowned them – all (of them)!

Allah tells us how He responded to His servant and Messenger Nuh, peace be upon him, when he prayed to Him against his people for their disbelief in him:

{Then he invoked his Lord (saying): "I have been overcome, so help (me)!"} [54:10]

{And Niih said: "My Lord! Leave not any inhabitatit of the disbelievers on the earth! If You leave them, they will mislead Your servants, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers} [71:26-27].

So Allah says here,

Quoted Scripture

"And (remember) Niih, when he cried (to Us) aforetime. We answered to his invocation and saved him and his family"

meaning, those who believed with him, as Allah says elsewhere:

{...and your family - except him against whom the Word has already gone forth - and those who believe. And none believed with him, except a few} [11:40].

{from the great dis- tress.} meaning, from difficulty, rejection and harm. For he remained among them for one thousand years less calling them to Allah, and no one had believed in him except for a few. His people were plotting against him and advising one another century after century, generation after generation, to oppose him.

{We helped him against the people} means, “We saved him and helped him against the people,”

Quoted Scripture

"who denied Our Ay at. Verily, they were a peo- ple given to evil. So We drowned thetn all."

meaning, Allah drowned them all, and not one of them was left on the face of the earth, as their Prophet had prayed would happen to them.

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Universal Sunni Consensus: Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Azim by Hafiz Ibn Kathir (701–774 AH / 1301–1373 AD) is universally regarded across all major schools of Sunni Islam (traditional, Salafi, Ash'ari) as the most authoritative classical exegesis. It is prized because it relies on Tafsir bil-Ma'thur—interpreting the Quran using the Quran itself, authentic Hadiths of Prophet Muhammad, and recorded statements of the early Companions (Sahabah).

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