وَإِن يُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍۢ وَعَادٌۭ وَثَمُودُ
Wa iny yukazzibooka faqad kazzabat qablahum qawmu Nooinw wa Aadunw wa Samood
And if they deny you, [O Muhammad] - so, before them, did the people of Noah and 'Aad and Thamud deny [their prophets],
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22:42Ayah 178
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And if they deny you — these words to the end of the statement are meant to comfort the Prophet s — the people of Noah denied before them kadhdhabat in the feminine person on the basis of the overall import and ‘Ād the people of Hūd and Thamūd the people of Sālih
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