Overall meaning : Allah, Exalted, be He, mentions that He revealed to Noah, upon him be peace, saying, 'None of your people will believe other than those who have already done so before. Do not be distressed, therefore, by what they have been doing. Build the Ark under Our watchful eyes and protection and in accordance with Our instructions through inspiration. Do not ask Me to forgive those who have done wrong among your people because of their unbelief, for they will assuredly be drowned in the Deluge.
Noah, peace be upon him, set about building the Ark, the Almighty states, and every time the unbelieving notables of his people passed by him, they ridiculed him. He said, 'If you mock us today because of your ignorance that Allah’s promise is true, we will mock you just as you mock us. You will soon come to know who will receive a humiliating punishment in this life and suffer an everlasting torment in the hereafter.’