The Holy Quran 71:21 — Surah Nuh

Arabic text

قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًا

Translation

(After 950 years of extensive preaching,) Nooh عليه الصلاة والسلام said, "O my Rabb! They have refused to obey me and have followed people whose wealth and children have only increased their loss (by causing them to fall deeper into kufr and sin by not listening to the sermons)." (via haughtiness and arrogance)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

They did not obey me: that is, they obeyed their chiefs and wealthy men, in whose wealth and children there is no good or benefit; rather, these have been a curse upon them. Because of these very things they remained deprived of religion, and in their extreme rebelliousness and arrogance they kept others deprived too.

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