Translation of the meanings Ayah 23 Surah Nūh - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 23

وَقَالُواْ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمۡ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدّٗا وَلَا سُوَاعٗا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسۡرٗا

23. And they said: "Do not abandon your gods 'idols', specially do not abandon Wadd, Suwa’, Yaghuth, Yauq, and Nasr⁷.

7. These are the names of some righteous persons from Noah's people. When they passed away, Satan inspired their people to set up images in their honor and set them in their gathering places, and to give these images the names of those saints. They did this but did not worship them until these people passed away and knowledge of their origins were forgotten, then they were worshipped. Most of our predecessors have stated: After the death (of the righteous persons), they confined at their graves and made images and after much time passed they started worshipping them.