14 Preface وَلَقَد أَرسَلنا نوحًا إِلىٰ قَومِهِ فَلَبِثَ فيهِم أَلفَ سَنَةٍ إِلّا خَمسينَ عامًا فَأَخَذَهُمُ الطّوفانُ وَهُم ظالِمونَYusuf AliWe (once) sent Noah to his people, and he tarried among them a thousand years1 less fifty: but the Deluge overwhelmed them while they (persisted in) sin.The story of Noah and his Flood is not told here. It is told in other places: e.g., see 11:25-48 or 26:105-122. His only referred to here to point out that Noah’s period lasted a long time, 950 years. (Cf. Gen. 9:28-29, where his whole age is declared to have been 950 years, of which 350 years were after the Flood). In spite of this long period, his contemporaries failed to listen, and they were destroyed but the story of the Ark remains an everlasting Sign and Warning to mankind-a Sign of deliverance to the righteous and of destruction to the wicked.