English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

We sent Nuh to his people: ´Warn your people before a painful punishment comes to them.´

He said, ´My people, I am a clear warner to you

Worship Allah, have taqwa of Him and obey me

He will forgive you your wrong actions and defer you until a specified time. When Allah´s time comes it cannot be deferred, if you only knew.´

but my calling has only made them more evasive

Indeed, every time I called them to Your forgiveness, they put their fingers in their ears, wrapped themselves up in their clothes and were overweeningly arrogant

Then I called them openly

Then I addressed them publicly and addressed them privately

I said, "Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Truly He is Endlessly Forgiving

He will send heaven down on you in abundant rain

and reinforce you with more wealth and sons, and grant you gardens and grant you waterways

What is the matter with you that you do not hope for honour from Allah

when He created you by successive stages

Do you not see how He created seven heavens in layers

and placed the moon as a light in them and made the sun a blazing lamp

Allah caused you to grow from the earth

then will return you to it and bring you out again

Allah has spread the earth out as a carpet for you

so that you could use its wide valleys as roadways."´

Nuh said, ´My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those whose wealth and children have only increased them in loss

They have hatched a mighty plot

saying, "Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd or Suwa´ or Yaghuth or Ya´uq or Nasr

They have misguided many people. Do not increase the wrongdoers in anything but misguidance!´

Because of their errors they were drowned and put into the Fire. They found no one to help them besides Allah

Nuh said, ´My Lord! do not leave a single one of the kafirun on earth

If You leave any they will misguide Your slaves and spawn nothing but more dissolute kafirun

My Lord! forgive me and my parents and all who enter my house as muminun, and all the men and women of the muminun. But do not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin!´