When the water rose in flood, We bore you in the ark,
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (lo! when the waters rose) at the time of noah, (we carried you) o community of muhammad (pbuh) as well as all created beings in the loins of your fathers (upon the ship) in the ship of noah.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : truly when the waters rose high, [when] they rose above all things including mountains and otherwise at the time of the flood, we carried you, meaning, your forefathers, you being in their loins, in the sailing vessel, the ark which noah built and by which he and those with him were saved while all the others drowned,
