" وقوم نوح من قبل "، أي: أهلك قوم نوح من قبل عاد وثمود، " إنهم كانوا هم أظلم وأطغى "، لطول دعوة نوح إياهم وعتوهم على الله بالمعصية والتكذيب.
He destroyed the people of Noah before the Ad and Thamud. The people of Noah were more unjust and transgressed even more than the Ad and Thamud, because Noah lived amongst them for nine hundred and fifty years inviting them to Allah’s oneness but they did not respond to him.