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  • وَيَصۡنَعُ And he was constructing
  • ٱلۡفُلۡكَ the ship
  • وَكُلَّمَا and every time
  • مَرَّ passed
  • عَلَيۡهِ by him
  • مَلَأٞ (the) chiefs
  • مِّن of
  • قَوۡمِهِۦ his people
  • سَخِرُواْ they ridiculed
  • مِنۡهُۚ [of] him
  • قَالَ He said
  • إِن If
  • تَسۡخَرُواْ you ridicule
  • مِنَّا us
  • فَإِنَّا then we
  • نَسۡخَرُ can ridicule
  • مِنكُمۡ you
  • كَمَا as
  • تَسۡخَرُونَ you ridicule
And he constructed the ship, and whenever an assembly of the eminent of his people passed by him, they ridiculed him. He said, "If you ridicule us, then we will ridicule you just as you ridicule.
And he was building the Ark (yasna' is narrating a past state [in the present tense]) and whenever a council, a group, of his people passed him, they scoffed at him, mocked him. He said, 'Though you scoff at us, yet we scoff at you, even as you scoff, when we are saved, while you drown;