Quran with Tafsir_English translation - Surah Hud ayat 38 - هُود - Page - Juz 12
﴿وَيَصۡنَعُ ٱلۡفُلۡكَ وَكُلَّمَا مَرَّ عَلَيۡهِ مَلَأٞ مِّن قَوۡمِهِۦ سَخِرُواْ مِنۡهُۚ قَالَ إِن تَسۡخَرُواْ مِنَّا فَإِنَّا نَسۡخَرُ مِنكُمۡ كَمَا تَسۡخَرُونَ ﴾
[هُود: 38]
﴿ويصنع الفلك وكلما مر عليه ملأ من قومه سخروا منه قال إن﴾ [هُود: 38]
| Dr Kamal Omar And he constructs the Ark; and whenever passed by him the representatives of his nation, they ridiculed him. He said: “If you ridicule us, so definitely we will mock at you in the same way as you mock (at us) |
| Dr Laleh Bakhtiar And he crafts the boat. Whenever the Council passed by him of his folk, they derided him. He said: If you deride us, then, we will deride you just as you deride us |
| Dr Munir Munshey He built a boat. The chiefs of his nation made fun of him each time they passed by. He said, "Go ahead! Make fun of us. We, in our turn, will make fun of you like you make fun of us now |
| Edward Henry Palmer So he made the ark, and every time the chiefs of his people passed by him they jested at him. Said he, 'If ye jest at us, verily, we shall jest at you even as ye are jesting, and ye shall surely know |
| Farook Malik So he started to build the ark; and whenever the chiefs of his people passed by him they laughed at him. He said: "Laugh at us now if you will, soon the time is going to come when we too will laugh at you as you are laughing at us |
| George Sale And he built the ark; and so often as a company of his people passed by him, they derided him: But he said, though ye scoff at us now, we will scoff at you hereafter, as ye scoff at us |
| Maududi As Noah was building the Ark, whenever the leading men of his nation passed by him, they would scoff at him. He said: ´If you scoff at us, we too scoff at you in like manner |