21. Surah Al Anbiya'

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَنُوحًا إِذْ نَادَى مِن قَبْلُ...  

21: 76.  (Remember) Noah, when he cried (to Us) aforetime:

C2730a. The date of Noah was many centuries before that of Abraham. (R).

...فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ فَنَجَّيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ ﴿٧٦﴾

We listened to his (prayer) and delivered him and his family from great distress.

C2731. The contemporaries of Noah were given to Unbelief, oppression of the poor, and vain disputations. He carried Allah's Message to them, and standing fast in faith, built the Ark, in which he was saved with his followers from the Flood, while the wicked were drowned.

See 11:25-48.

See 11:25-48.

وَنَصَرْنَاهُ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا...  

21: 77.  We helped him against people who rejected Our Signs:

...إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْمَ سَوْءٍ فَأَغْرَقْنَاهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ ﴿٧٧﴾

truly they were a people given to Evil:

so We drowned them (in the Flood) all together.

Asad’s Version:

21:76

AND [remember] Noah - [how,] when He called out [unto Us], long before [the time of Abraham and Lot], We responded to him and saved him and his household from that awesome calamity; 6 '

(21:77) and [how] We succoured him against the people who had given the lie to Our messages: verily, they were people lost in evil - and [so] We caused them all to drown.