Tafsir for verses: 11:38, 11:39, 11:40
وَيَصۡنَعُ ٱلۡفُلۡكَ وَكُلَّمَا مَرَّ عَلَيۡهِ مَلَأٞ مِّن قَوۡمِهِۦ سَخِرُواْ مِنۡهُۚ قَالَ إِن تَسۡخَرُواْ مِنَّا فَإِنَّا نَسۡخَرُ مِنكُمۡ كَمَا تَسۡخَرُونَ ٣٨ ﴿38﴾ فَسَوۡفَ تَعۡلَمُونَ مَن يَأۡتِيهِ عَذَابٞ يُخۡزِيهِ وَيَحِلُّ عَلَيۡهِ عَذَابٞ مُّقِيمٌ ٣٩ ﴿39﴾ 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 ٤٠ ﴿40﴾
38He started making the Ark. Whenever the leaders of his people passed by him, they mocked at him. He said, “If you mock at us, we mock at you like you mock at us: 39So, you shall soon know who will be visited by a scourge that will humiliate him, and upon whom a lasting punishment will settle forever.” 40At last, when Our command came and the oven overflowed, We said, “Take into the Ark a pair of two from every species, along with your family,-except those against whom the Word has already been pronounced-and (also take into it) those who have believed.” And there were only a few who had believed with him.
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Commentary

And when He, the Exalted, commanded him and forbade him, He informed that he complied with that by saying, adding to what you can understand: So he despaired of the faith of any of them, so he left their supplication and began to console himself: ﴿And he makes﴾ meaning: the making of a very skilled craftsman, who has a great mastery in that craft ﴿the ship﴾. So his action was adorned by his knowledge that he, glorified and exalted is He, had decisively commanded that he was doing what He commanded him to do. And he did not address them in it nor did he feel sorry for them, and he indicated that they increased in transgression by saying: ﴿And whenever﴾ meaning: while he, whenever ﴿a group of his people passed by him﴾ and he responded to

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