The Holy Quran 17:17 — Surah Al-Isra

Arabic text

وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِنَ ٱلْقُرُونِ مِنۢ بَعْدِ نُوحٍ ۗ وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ بِذُنُوبِ عِبَادِهِۦ خَبِيرًۢا بَصِيرًا

Translation

How many generations have We not destroyed after Nooh عليه الصلاة والسلام? Your Rabb suffices as the Knower and Seer of the sins of His slaves. (He knows the wrong they do and exactly why they deserve punishment.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The destruction of punished nations: in the period between Adam ﵇ and Nuh ﵇ all people remained upon Islam. Then shirk (associating partners with Allah) and idol-worship began. Nuh ﵇ was sent to reform them. For hundreds of years he admonished them; they did not listen, and in the end all of them were destroyed.

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