Ash-Shu'ara 116: (They) said, “Oh Noah! If you don’t abandon (your cause), know that you will be among those who are stoned.”
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(They) said, “Oh Noah! If you don’t abandon (your cause), know that you will be among those who are stoned.”
Tafsir
The prominent people of Hadrat Noah's people, who were wealthy people, could not swallow their arrogance and pride at being invited to Allah, and they threatened Hadrat Noah that if you do not give up your cause, that is, if you abandon what we worship and invite people to the Lord you have invented, you will be one of those who are stoned. In other words, they threatened Hadrat Noah by saying, "We will punish you and slaughter you.
What is said in the video
In Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 116, they said – who said? The idolaters, the people of Noah. They said: O Noah, if you do not give up this cause of yours, know well that you will be among the stoned ones. That is, the path our forefathers made, or what they worshipped, the path they went on – if you try to turn us from it, know that we will not follow you, and we will stone you among us. That is, we will kill you. They charge him with death. Or else we will drive you out of here. That is, we will drive you out of that land, they say. The leaders of the people of Noah (peace be upon him), those who were wealthy, unable to let their arrogance and pride accept being invited to Allah, said to Noah (peace be upon him): if you do not give up this cause of yours, that is, if you abandon what we worship and invite people to your invented Lord, you will be among the stoned. That is, saying "we will punish you and kill you", they threatened Noah (peace be upon him).
Yet they do not know that if Allah sends His envoy to a people, when he conveys the message, Allah stands behind that envoy. Otherwise – if I, as a human being, now send one of my men somewhere, and in the place I sent him they kill my envoy, I would call them to account for it. I would call them to account. But Allah – since I am human, I cannot reach as far as there, but to save him; but Allah (?) saves him. I said – what happened? (?) Yes.