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Umurongo: 40

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَ أَمۡرُنَا وَفَارَ ٱلتَّنُّورُ قُلۡنَا ٱحۡمِلۡ فِيهَا مِن كُلّٖ زَوۡجَيۡنِ ٱثۡنَيۡنِ وَأَهۡلَكَ إِلَّا مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيۡهِ ٱلۡقَوۡلُ وَمَنۡ ءَامَنَۚ وَمَآ ءَامَنَ مَعَهُۥٓ إِلَّا قَلِيلٞ

(40) Until when Our Command came and the clay oven spurted ˹water˺^[2541], We said ˹to Nūḥ˺: “Carry into it a pair of every kind^[2542], ˹members of ˺ your household – except the ones regarding whom the word was already passed^[2543] – and the ones who have Believed”—but only few have Believed with him.

[2541] As a sign of the imminent coming of the promised punishment (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Wāḥidī, al-Wasīṭ).
[2542] The result of the relationship between male and female is the basic nucleus of life; without it, life would not be sustainable and, hence, such a Divine command for a life that was to be established anew after the deluge.
[2543] Those among Noah’s family who did not Believe with him and whom God decreed that they should thus be destroyed (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī).