Meaning: and We drowned · Also translated as: We drowned, and drown you, but We drowned him, to drown
Forms in the Quran
وَأَغْرَقْنَآ×4
أَغْرَقْنَا×4
فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ×3
فَيُغْرِقَكُم×1
فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُ×1
لِتُغْرِقَ×1
أَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ×1
نُغْرِقْهُمْ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الغرق: الرسوب في الماء وفي البلاء، وغرق فلان يغرق غرقا، وأغرقه. قال تعالى: حتى إذا أدركه الغرق
قوله تعالى: ﴿وأغرقنا آل فرعون﴾ [الأنفال:54]. الإغراق: التغييب في الماء وشبهه، ثم استعير لكل متعد في شيء. قوله تعالى: ﴿والنازعات غرقا﴾ [النازعات:1] قيل: هي الملائكة تنزع نفوس الكفرة من صدورهم إغراقا، أي مبالغة من قولهم: أغرق الباري في القوس، أي بالغ قيل: والمصدر الإغراق. والغرق اسم المصدر. وفي الحديث: "يأتي على الناس…
But they rejected him,
And We delivered him,
And those with him,
In the Ark:
But We overwhelmed
In the Flood those
Who rejected Our Signs.
They were indeed
A blind people!
"(Deeds) after the manner
Of the People of Pharaoh
And those before them":
They treated as false the Signs
Of their Lord: so We
Destroyed them for their crimes,
And We drowned the People
Of Pharaoh: for they were all
Oppressors and wrong-doers.
They rejected him,
But We delivered him,
And those with him,
In the Ark, and We made
Them inherit (the earth),
While We overwhelmed
In the Flood those
Who rejected Our Signs.
Then see what was the end
Of those who were warned
(But heeded not)!
Or do ye feel secure
That He will not send you
Back a second time
To sea and send against you
A heavy gale to drown you
Because of your ingratitude,
So that ye find no helper
Therein against Us?
So they both proceeded:
Until, when they were
In the boat, he scuttled it.
Said Moses: "Hast thou
Scuttled it in order
To drown those in it?
Truly a strange thing
Hast thou done!"
And the people of Noah,—
When they rejected the apostles,
We drowned them,
And We made them
As a Sign for mankind;
And We have prepared
For (all) wrong-doers
A grievous Penalty;—
Each one of them We seized
For his crime: of them,
Against some We sent
A violent tornado (with showers
Of stones); some were caught
By a (mighty) Blast; some
We caused the earth
To swallow up; and some
We drowned (in the waters):
It was not God Who
Injured (or oppressed) them:
They injured (and oppressed)
Their own souls.
Because of their sins
They were drowned
(In the flood),
And were made to enter
The Fire (of Punishment):
And they found
In lieu of God
None to help them.