Transliteration:( Wa inee kullamaa da'awtuhum litaghfira lahum ja'alooo asaabi'ahum fee aazaanihim wastaghshaw siyaabahum wa asaarroo wastakbarus tikbaaraa )
"And whenever I called them to seek Your forgiveness, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and became arrogant."
Hazrat Nuh (Alaihissalam) clarifies that his invitation to Allah’s path was not for any personal gain, but solely for the benefit of his people — to lead them toward forgiveness and salvation.
They plugged their ears to avoid hearing the truth. This action reflects their extreme stubbornness and rejection of divine guidance.
By covering themselves, they showed their disgust and unwillingness to even see the Prophet’s face — similar to how a bat flees from sunlight. This symbolizes their complete spiritual blindness.
They believed that accepting the truth would lower their status, so they persisted in arrogance.
This highlights a major lesson:
Arrogance towards the Prophets keeps a person deprived of faith.
🌟 May Allah (اللَّهُ ) protect us from such arrogance and grant us the honour of being among the humble who value the companionship and message of the Prophets and the righteous.
The tafsir of Surah Nuh verse 7 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Nuh ayat 5 which provides the complete commentary from verse 5 through 20.
(71:7) And every time I called them so that You might forgive them,[9] they thrust their fingers into their ears and wrapped up their faces with their garments[10] and obstinately clung to their attitude, and waxed very proud.[11]
9. “That you may forgive them”: That they might give up their attitude of disobedience and beg forgiveness of Allah, for in that way alone they could be forgiven by Allah.
10. They covered their faces either because they did not even like to have a look at Prophet Noah’s (peace be upon him) face, not to speak of listening to what he said, or they did so in order to hide their own faces from him as they passed by him so that he could not recognize and address them. This precisely was the attitude and conduct which the disbelievers of Makkah were adopting towards the Prophet (peace be upon him). In (Surah Houd, Ayat 5), their attitude has been described thus: Behold, they turn aside their chests in order to hide themselves from him: Beware, even when they cover themselves up with their garments, Allah knows alike what they hide and what they show. He indeed knows even the secrets they conceal in their breasts. For explanation, see (Surah Houd, ayat 5) note 5-6.
11. Arrogance implies that they thought it was below their dignity to bow before the truth and accept the admonition of Allah’s Messenger. As for example, if a gentleman admonishes a perverted person and he, in response, shakes his head and walks away haughtily, this would amount to rejecting the admonition with arrogance.
[1761]- Refusing to look or listen.
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