﴿ كَذَّبَتْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ ﴾

“The people of Noah [too] gave the lie to [one of God’s] message-bearers”

The people of Noah denied the messengers by denying him for they all brought the same message affirming God’s Oneness; or it is because he stayed among them for so long that it was as though he was many messengers the feminine person of the verb kadhdhabat ‘denied’ governed by qawm ‘the people’ is on account of the import but it is masculine on account of its morphological form;