كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ وَعَادٌ وَفِرْعَوْنُ ذُو ٱلْأَوْتَادِ
Kazzabat qablahum qawmu Lootinw-wa 'Aadunw wa Fir'awnu zul awtaad
Onlardan önce Nuh milleti, Ad, sarsılmaz bir saltanatın sahibi Firavun, Semud, Lut milleti, Eykeliler de peygamberleri yalanlamıştı. İşte bunlar da peygamberlerine karşı birleşen topluluklardır.
Before them, the people of Nuh denied the truth, and so did 'Ad, and Pharaoh of the stakes,
Pharaoh alone among the peoples listed here carries an epithet, dhu al-awtad, the one of the stakes, and it comes back for him once more in a later surah. Readers have taken the stakes for tent-pegs standing in for a dominion driven firmly in, for the stakes of a torture, and for the pyramids; the same word elsewhere describes mountains set as pegs of the earth. The list then closes by calling these peoples the factions, answering a taunt made three lines above.