“When the Flood rose high, we bare you in the Ark,
“That we might make that event a warning to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.”
“Before them the people of Noah treated the truth as a lie, Our servant did they charge with falsehood, and said, ‘Demoniac!’ and he was rejected.
“Then cried he to his Lord, ‘Verily, they prevail against me; come thou therefore to my succour.’
“So we opened the gates of Heaven with water which fell in torrents,
“And we caused the earth to break forth with springs, and their waters met by settled decree.
“And we bare him on a vessel made with planks and nails.
“Under our eyes it floated on: a recompense to him who had been rejected with unbelief.