11إِنّا لَمّا طَغَى الماءُ حَمَلناكُم فِي الجارِيَةِMuhammad Asad[And] behold: when the waters [of Noah's flood] burst beyond all limits, it was We who caused you1 to be borne [to safety] in that floating ark,I.e., metonymically (in the consensus of all classical commentators), "your ancestors".