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English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

Translation by A. J. Arberry — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Nuh 71:1

We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement
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Verse 2 — Surah Nuh 71:2

He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner
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Verse 3 — Surah Nuh 71:3

saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me
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Verse 4 — Surah Nuh 71:4

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
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Verse 5 — Surah Nuh 71:5

He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day
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Verse 6 — Surah Nuh 71:6

but my calling has only increased them in flight
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Verse 7 — Surah Nuh 71:7

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
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Verse 8 — Surah Nuh 71:8

Then indeed I called them openly
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Verse 9 — Surah Nuh 71:9

then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly
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Verse 10 — Surah Nuh 71:10

and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving
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Verse 11 — Surah Nuh 71:11

and He will loose heaven upon you in torrents
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Verse 12 — Surah Nuh 71:12

and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers
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Verse 13 — Surah Nuh 71:13

What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God
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Verse 14 — Surah Nuh 71:14

seeing He created you by stages
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Verse 15 — Surah Nuh 71:15

Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another
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Verse 16 — Surah Nuh 71:16

and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp
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Verse 17 — Surah Nuh 71:17

And God caused you to grow out of the earth
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Verse 18 — Surah Nuh 71:18

then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth
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Verse 19 — Surah Nuh 71:19

And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet
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Verse 20 — Surah Nuh 71:20

that thereof you may thread ways, ravines
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Verse 21 — Surah Nuh 71:21

Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss
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Verse 22 — Surah Nuh 71:22

and have devised a mighty device
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Verse 23 — Surah Nuh 71:23

and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr
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Verse 24 — Surah Nuh 71:24

And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error
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Verse 25 — Surah Nuh 71:25

And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them
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Verse 26 — Surah Nuh 71:26

And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one
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Verse 27 — Surah Nuh 71:27

Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines
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Verse 28 — Surah Nuh 71:28

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
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