Waqawma noohin min qablu innahum kanoo qawman fasiqeena
English
Ahmed Ali
(So had We destroyed) the people of Noah before them: They were surely a sinful people.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and the folk of noah) we had also destroyed them (aforetime) before the folk of salih. (lo! they were licentious folk) they were disbelieving folk.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and the people of noah (read wa qawmi nūhin, as a supplement to thamūda, in other words: ‘in the destruction of these [two peoples] by what [destructive power] exists in the heavens and the earth there is [also] a sign’; or read wa qawma nūhin, in other words, ‘we also destroyed the people of noah’) aforetime, that is, before the destruction of those mentioned. indeed they were an immoral lot.
