Quran Universe
26:117

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوۡمِي كَذَّبُونِ

Qala rabbi inna qawmee kaththabooni

He said, "My Lord, indeed my people have denied me.

Word by word
  1. قَالَHe said
  2. رَبِّMy Lord
  3. إِنَّIndeed
  4. قَوۡمِيmy people
  5. كَذَّبُونِhave denied me
Ash-Shu'ara · 26:117Makkah

My Lord, my people have called me a liar.

Bringing the pain straight to Allah

Nuh's complaint
Nuhafter years
tells his Lord
they denied memy own people
Where the complaint goes
to everyonevent and rage
to AllahMy Lord

When the threat came, Nuh turned to Allah: My Lord, my people have denied me. Ibn Kathir says Allah responded to his prayer, and compares it to another verse where Nuh says I have been overcome, so help me.

You were not believed. The family took the other side, the manager did not back you. You want to post about it, call everyone. Nuh took it to his Lord first. Tell Him exactly what happened.

When I am hurt, I need everyone to know what they did.

My deepest complaints are best brought to Allah first.

Try this

Next time you feel wronged, pray and tell Allah before telling anyone else.

Related54:10
Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 26:116)

They said: "If you cease not, O Nuh you will surely be among those stoned. (116)He said: "My Lord! Verily, my people have denied me. (117)"Therefore judge You between me and them, and save me and those of the believers who are with me. (118)And We saved him and those with him in the laden ship (119)Then We drowned the rest thereafter (120)Verily, in this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers (121)And verily your Lord, He is indeed the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful (122)

His People's Threat, Nuh's Prayer Against Them, and Their Destruction

Nuh stayed among his people for a long time, calling them to Allah night and day, in secret and openly. The more he repeated his call to them, the more determined were they to cling to their extreme disbelief and resist his call. In the end, they said:

لَئِن لَّمْ تَنتَهِ يَا نُوحُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمَرْجُومِينَ

(If you cease not, O Nuh you will surely be among those stoned.) meaning, 'if you do not stop calling us to your religion,'

لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمَرْجُومِينَ

(you will surely be among those stoned.) meaning, 'we will stone you.' At that point, he prayed against them, and Allah responded to his prayer. Nuh said:

رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي كَذَّبُونِ - فَافْتَحْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُمْ فَتْحًا

(My Lord! Verily, my people have denied me. Therefore judge You between me and them.) This is like the Ayah:

فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنِّي مَغْلُوبٌ فَانتَصِرْ

(Then he invoked his Lord (saying): "I have been overcome, so help (me)!")(54:10) And Allah says here:

فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَمَن مَّعَهُ فِي الْفُلْكِ الْمَشْحُونِ - ثُمَّ أَغْرَقْنَا بَعْدُ الْبَاقِينَ

(And We saved him and those with him in the laden ship. Then We drowned the rest thereafter.) The "laden ship" is one that is filled with cargo and the couples, one pair from every species, that were carried in it. This Ayah means: 'We saved Nuh and all of those who followed him, and We drowned those who disbelieved in him and went against his commands, all of them.'

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً ۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ - وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ

(Verily, in this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers. And verily your Lord, He is indeed the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful.)