| 71 ) Nooh | |||
| 1 | We sent Noah to his People ( with the Command ): " Do thou warn thy people before there comes to them a grievous Penalty. " | ||
| 2 | He said: " O my People! I am to you a Warner clear and open: | ||
| 3 | " That ye should worship Allah fear Him and obey me: | ||
| 4 | " So He may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a stated Term: For when the Term given by Allah is accomplished it cannot be put forward: if ye only knew. " | ||
| 5 | He said: " O my Lord! I have called to my People night and day: | ||
| 6 | " But my call only increases ( their ) flight ( from the Right ). " | ||
| 7 | " And every time I have called to them that thou mightest forgive them they have ( only ) thrust their fingers into their ears covered themselves up with their garments grown obstinate and given themselves up to arrogance. | ||
| 8 | " So I have called to them aloud; | ||
| 9 | " Further I have spoken to them in public and secretly in private. | ||
| 10 | " Saying 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft-Forgiving; | ||
| 11 | " 'He will send rain to you in abundance; | ||
| 12 | " 'Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you Gardens and bestow on you Rivers ( of flowing water ). | ||
| 13 | " 'What is the matter with you that ye place not your hope for kindness and long-suffering in Allah | ||
| 14 | " 'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?. | ||
| 15 | " 'See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another. | ||
| 16 | " 'And made the moon a light in their midst and made the sun as a ( Glorious ) Lamp?. | ||
| 17 | " 'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing ( gradually ). | ||
| 18 | " 'And in the End He will return you into the ( earth ) and raise you forth ( again at the Resurrection )?. | ||
| 19 | " 'And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet ( spread out ). | ||
| 20 | " 'That ye may go about therein in spacious roads.' ". | ||
| 21 | Noah said: " O my Lord! they have disobeyed me but they follow ( men ) whose wealth and children give them no Increase but only Loss. | ||
| 22 | " And they have devised a tremendous Plot. | ||
| 23 | " And they have said ( to each other ) abandon not your gods; abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa neither Yaguth nor Yauq nor Nasr | ||
| 24 | " They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrongdoers but in straying ( from their mark ). " | ||
| 25 | Because of their sins they were drowned ( in the flood ) and were made to enter the Fire ( of Punishment ): and they found in lieu of Allah none to help them. | ||
| 26 | And Noah said: " O my Lord! Leave not of the Unbelievers a single one on earth! | ||
| 27 | " For if Thou dost leave ( any of ) them they will but mislead thy devotees and they will breed none but wicked ungrateful ones. | ||
| 28 | " O my Lord! Forgive me my parents all who enter my house in Faith and ( all ) believing men and believing women: and to the wrongdoers grant Thou no increase but in Perdition! " | ||