ٱلْمُؤْمِنُون : ٢٧

  • فَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ So We inspired
  • إِلَيۡهِ to him
  • أَنِ That
  • ٱصۡنَعِ construct
  • ٱلۡفُلۡكَ the ship
  • بِأَعۡيُنِنَا under Our eyes
  • وَوَحۡيِنَا and Our inspiration
  • فَإِذَا then when
  • جَآءَ comes
  • أَمۡرُنَا Our Command
  • وَفَارَ and gushes forth
  • ٱلتَّنُّورُ the oven
  • فَٱسۡلُكۡ then put
  • فِيهَا into it
  • مِن of
  • كُلّٖ every (kind)
  • زَوۡجَيۡنِ (of) mates
  • ٱثۡنَيۡنِ two
  • وَأَهۡلَكَ and your family
  • إِلَّا except
  • مَن those
  • سَبَقَ (has) preceded
  • عَلَيۡهِ against whom
  • ٱلۡقَوۡلُ the Word
  • مِنۡهُمۡۖ thereof
  • وَلَا And (do) not
  • تُخَٰطِبۡنِي address Me
  • فِي concerning
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ظَلَمُوٓاْ wronged
  • إِنَّهُم indeed they
  • مُّغۡرَقُونَ (are) the ones to be drowned
So We inspired to him, "Construct the ship under Our observation and Our inspiration, and when Our command comes and the oven overflows,1 put into it [i.e., the ship] from each [creature] two mates and your family, except him for whom the decree [of destruction] has proceeded. And do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are to be drowned.
Footnotes
1 - See footnote to 11:40.
So We revealed to him [saying], 'Build the Ark, the ship, under Our watch, under Our observation and protection, and [by] Our revelation, Our command. Then, when Our command comes, that they be destroyed, and the oven, of the baker, gushes, with water - and this was Noah's sign - bring into it, admit into the ship, of every kind [of animal] two mates, a male and a female, that is, [two] of every species thereof (ithnayn is an object; min, 'of', is semantically connected to usluk, 'bring into [it]'). According to the story God, exalted be He, gathered all the beasts of prey and the birds and other [animals] for Noah. As he [Noah] pushed forth his hands into each species, his right hand would fall upon a male and the left upon a female, whereafter he would take them on board the ship (a variant reading [for min kuli, 'of every'] is min kullin, 'of every [kind]', in which case zawjayni, '[two] mates', becomes a direct object, with ithnayn, 'two', [being repeated] for emphasis thereof); together with your family - his wife [?] and children - except for those against whom the Word has already gone forth, that they be destroyed, namely, his wife and his son Canaan (Kan'aan), unlike Shem (Saam), Ham (Haam) and Japheth (Yaafith) whom, together with their three wives, he carried on board. In soorat Hood [the following is mentioned where Noah is told who he should carry in the ship]: '. and those who believe.' And none believed with him except a few [Q. 11:40]. It is said that these were six men and their wives. Moreover it is said that all those who were on the ship numbered seventy eight, half of them were men and half were women. And do not plead with Me concerning those who have done wrong, those who have disbelieved, that I should refrain from destroying them. They shall indeed be drowned.