sailing before Our eyes that is in Our sights in other words it was being protected as retaliation jazā’an is in the accusative because of the implied verbal clause that is to say ‘they were drowned by way of revenge’ for the sake of him who was rejected namely Noah peace be upon him a variant reading for passive kufira has kafara ‘him who disbelieved’ in other words they were drowned as a punishment for them.
