سورة النجم، الآية ٥٢
وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ مِّن قَبْلُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ هُمْ أَظْلَمَ وَأَطْغَىٰ ٥٢
waqawma nūḥin min qablu innahum kānū hum aẓlama wa-aṭghā
And the people of Noah before. Indeed, it was they who were [even] more unjust and oppressing.
Verse 52 of Surah An-Najm (53:52), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 528 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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He destroyed the people of Noah before the Ad and Thamud. The people of Noah were more unjust and transgressed even more than the Ad and Thamud, because Noah lived amongst them for nine hundred and fifty years inviting them to Allah’s oneness but they did not respond to him.
and [He destroyed] the people of Noah before them; they were indeed more wicked and more rebellious.
And the people of Nûh (Noah) aforetime. Verily, they were more unjust and more rebellious and transgressing [in disobeying Allâh and His Messenger Nûh (Noah) عليه السلام].
And the folk of Noah aforetime, Lo! they were more unjust and more rebellious;
And before them, the people of Noah, for that they were (all) most unjust and most insolent transgressors,
And the people of Nuh before; surely they were most unjust and inordinate;
And the people of Nuh (Noah) earlier; surely they were the ones who were more unjust and more inordinate.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ مِّن قَبْلُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا فَٰسِقِينَ
And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient.
وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِأَشْيَاعِهِم مِّن قَبْلُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ فِى شَكٍّ مُّرِيبٍۭ
And prevention will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done with their kind before. Indeed, they were in disquieting doubt [i.e., denial].
