Sure 21 Al-Anbiyaa — Aya 76
وَنُوحًا إِذْ نَادَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ فَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَأَهْلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
wie auch Noah, als er vordem (zu Uns) rief; Wir erhörten ihn und retteten ihn und seine Angehörigen aus großer Drangsal.
wanūḥan idh nādā min qablu fa-is'tajabnā lahu fanajjaynāhu wa-ahlahu mina l-karbi l-ʿaẓīmi
Wort für Wort
- وَنُوحًا wanūḥan And Nuh
- إِذْ idh when
- نَادَىٰ nādā he called
- مِن min before
- قَبْلُ qablu before
- فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا fa-is'tajabnā so We responded
- لَهُۥ lahu to him
- فَنَجَّيْنَـٰهُ fanajjaynāhu and We saved him
- وَأَهْلَهُۥ wa-ahlahu and his family
- مِنَ mina from
- ٱلْكَرْبِ l-karbi the affliction
- ٱلْعَظِيمِ l-ʿaẓīmi [the] great
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Nuh and His People
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 Nuh said: "My Lord! Leave not any inhabitant 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,
(And (remember) Nuh, 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 fifty, 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,'
(who denied Our Ayat. Verily, they were a people given to evil. So We drowned them 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.