76 Preface وَنوحًا إِذ نادىٰ مِن قَبلُ فَاستَجَبنا لَهُ فَنَجَّيناهُ وَأَهلَهُ مِنَ الكَربِ العَظيمِYusuf Ali(Remember) Noah, when he cried (to Us) aforetime:2730-A We listened to his (prayer) and delivered him and his family from great distress.1The contemporaries of Noah were given to Unbelief, oppression of the poor, and vain disputations. He carried God’s Message to them, and standing fast in faith, built the Ark, in which he was saved with his followers from the Flood, while the wicked were drowned. See 11:25-48.