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    English - Chapter 71

    Translation by A. J. Arberry

    Verse 1

    We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement

    Verse 2

    He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner

    Verse 3

    saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me

    Verse 4

    and He will forgive you your sins, and defer you to a stated term; God's term, when it comes, cannot be deferred, did you but know

    Verse 5

    He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day

    Verse 6

    but my calling has only increased them in flight

    Verse 7

    And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud

    Verse 8

    Then indeed I called them openly

    Verse 9

    then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly

    Verse 10

    and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving

    Verse 11

    and He will loose heaven upon you in torrents

    Verse 12

    and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers

    Verse 13

    What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God

    Verse 14

    seeing He created you by stages

    Verse 15

    Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another

    Verse 16

    and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp

    Verse 17

    And God caused you to grow out of the earth

    Verse 18

    then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth

    Verse 19

    And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet

    Verse 20

    that thereof you may thread ways, ravines

    Verse 21

    Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss

    Verse 22

    and have devised a mighty device

    Verse 23

    and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr

    Verse 24

    And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error

    Verse 25

    And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them

    Verse 26

    And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one

    Verse 27

    Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines

    Verse 28

    My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whosoever enters my house as a believer, and the believers, men and women alike; and do Thou not increase the evildoers save in ruin