English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

SENT NOAH to his people to warn them before the painful punishment came upon them

He said: "O my people, I warn you clearly

That you should worship God and fear Him, and follow me

That He may forgive some of your sins and prolong your term till an appointed time. Surely when God's appointed time is come it will not be put off, if only you knew

He said: "O Lord, I called my people night and day

But the more I called, they only ran the farther away

And every time I called them that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and covered themselves with their garments, and became wayward, and behaved with downright insolence

Then I called them loudly and more openly

And declared to them in public and in private

And I told them: 'Ask your Lord to forgive you. He is verily forgiving

He will send you abundant rain from the sky

And will give you increase of wealth and sons, and give you gardens and springs of water

What has come upon you that you do not fear the majesty of God

Knowing that He has created you by various stages

Do you not see how God has fashioned seven skies one above the other

And has placed the moon therein, an illumination, and has placed the sun, a lighted lamp

God produced you from the earth like a vegetable growth

He will then return you back to it, and bring you out again

God has made the earth for you a spreading

So that you may walk upon its spacious paths

But they did not listen to me," Noah said, "and followed him whose wealth and children only added to his ruin

And they contrived a plot of great magnitude

And said: 'Do not abandon your gods, and do not abandon Wadda or Suwa', or Yaghuth, Ya'uq or Nasr

And they misled many. So do not give the evil-doers increase but in error

They were drowned because of their habitual sinfulness, and sent to Hell, and did not find any helper other than God

Noah said: "O Lord, do not leave a single habitation of unbelievers on the earth

If you leave them, they will lead Your creatures astray, and beget but iniquitous and ungrateful offspring

O Lord, forgive me, my parents, and any one who enters my house as a believer, and all believing men and women, and do not give the evil-doers increase save in ruin