71. NOAH (Nuh)

In the name of Allah,
the Gracious, the Merciful

1. We sent Noah to his people: “Warn your
   people before there comes upon them a painful punishment.”
2. He said, “O my people, I am to you a clear
   warner.
3. Worship Allah and reverence Him, and
   obey me.
4. And He will forgive you of your sins, and
   reprieve you until a stated term. Allah’s term
   cannot be deferred once it has arrived, if you
   only knew.”
5. He said, “My Lord, I have called my people
   night and day.
6. But my call added only to their flight.
7. Whenever I called them to Your forgiveness, they thrust their fingers into their
   ears, and wrapped themselves in their garments, and insisted, and became more and
   more arrogant.
8. Then I called them openly.
9. Then I appealed to them publicly, and I
   spoke to them privately.
10. I said, ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness; He is
    Forgiving.
11. He will let loose the sky upon you in torrents.
12. And provide you with wealth and children,
    and allot for you gardens, and allot for you
    rivers.
13. What is the matter with you, that you do
    not appreciate Allah’s Greatness?
14. Although He created you in stages.
15. Do you not realize that Allah created seven
    heavens in layers?
16. And He set the moon in their midst for
    light, and He made the sun a lamp.
17. And Allah germinated you from the earth
    like plants.
18. Then He will return you into it, and will
    bring you out again.
19. And Allah made the earth a spread for you.
20. That you may travel its diverse roads.’”
21. Noah said, “My Lord, they have defied me,
    and followed him whose wealth and children
    increase him only in perdition.”
22. And they schemed outrageous schemes.
23. And they said, “Do not give up your gods;
    do not give up Wadd, nor Souwa, nor
    Yaghoos, and Yaooq, and Nassr.
24. They have misled many, so do not increase
    the wrongdoers except in confusion.”
25. Because of their wrongs, they were
    drowned, and were hurled into a Fire. They
    did not find apart from Allah any helpers.
26. Noah said, “My Lord, do not leave of the
    unbelievers a single dweller on earth.
27. If You leave them, they will mislead your
    servants, and will breed only wicked unbelievers.
28. My Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and
    anyone who enters my home in faith, and all
    the believing men and believing women; and
    do not increase the wrongdoers except in
    perdition.”