M. H. Shakir, The Holy Quran; Arabic Text and English Translation; Foot-notes by M. H. Shakir (1974)

from among his people passed by him they laughed at him. He said: If you laugh at us, surely we too laugh at you as you laugh (at Us).

39. So shall you know who it is on whom will come a chastisement which will disgrace him, and on whom will lasting chastisement come down.

40. Until when Our command came and water came forth from the valley, We said: Carry in it two of all things, a pair, and your own family — except those against whom the word has already gone forth, and those who believe. And there believed not with him but a few.

41. And he said: Embark in it, in the name of Allah be its sailing and its anchoring; most surely my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.

42. And it moved on with them amid waves like mountains; and Nuh called out to his son, and he was aloof: O my son! embark with us and be not with the unbelievers.

43. He said: I will betake myself for refuge to a mountain that shall protect me from the