Quran Universe
26:120

ثُمَّ أَغۡرَقۡنَا بَعۡدُ ٱلۡبَاقِينَ

Thumma aghraqna baAAdu albaqeena

Then We drowned thereafter the remaining ones.

Word by word
  1. ثُمَّThen
  2. أَغۡرَقۡنَاWe drowned
  3. بَعۡدُthereafter
  4. ٱلۡبَاقِينَthe remaining ones
Ash-Shu'ara · 26:120Makkah

Then the rest were drowned.

The end of those who refused Nuh

After the ship
the savedthose with Nuh
and
the restwho refused, drowned
How long the chance lasted
foreverthere is always later
until the ship sailedthen it closed

Allah says then We drowned the rest thereafter. Ibn Kathir explains: We saved Nuh and all who followed him, and drowned all those who disbelieved in him and went against his commands. For years the door was open. Then the ship sailed.

You keep saying you will fix it later: the prayer, the apology, the debt you owe. Every door that is open now will close one day. The ship is still at the dock. Get on.

There will always be more time to turn back.

The chance is open now, but not forever. Today is the day to board.

Try this

Do the one thing today you keep telling yourself you will do later.

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.)