ص : ١٢

  • كَذَّبَتۡ Denied
  • قَبۡلَهُمۡ before them
  • قَوۡمُ (the) people
  • نُوحٖ (of) Nuh
  • وَعَادٞ and Aad
  • وَفِرۡعَوۡنُ and Firaun
  • ذُو (the) owner
  • ٱلۡأَوۡتَادِ (of) the stakes
The people of Noah denied before them, and [the tribe of] ʿAad and Pharaoh, the owner of stakes,1
Footnotes
1 - By which he tortured people.
Before them the people of Noah denied (the inflection of [the verb kadhdabat, 'denied', that is governed by] qawmu, 'people', is in the feminine person because of the [implicit] sense), and [so did those of] 'aad and Pharaoh, he of the stakes - he used to fix four stakes for the person who incurred his wrath and tie to these [stakes] that person's hands and feet and then torture him -