English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

He said, "O my people! I come to you a plain-spoken warner

Serve God and fear Him, and obey me

Your sins will He forgive you, and respite you till the fixed Time; for when God's fixed Time hath come, it shall not be put back. Would that ye knew this

He said, "Lord I have cried to my people night and day

and my cry doth but make them flee from me the more

So oft as I cry to them, that thou mayest forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrap themselves in their garments, and persist in their error, and are disdainfully disdainful

Then I cried aloud to them

Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address them

And I said, Beg forgiveness of your Lord, for He is ready to forgive

He will send down the very Heaven upon you in plenteous rains

And will increase you in wealth and children; and will give you gardens, and will give you watercourses

What hath come to you that ye hope not for goodness from the hand of God

For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps

See ye not how God hath created the seven heavens one over the other

And He hath placed therein the moon as a light, and hath placed there the sun as a torch

And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant

Hereafter will He turn you back into it again, and will bring you forth anew

And God hath spread the earth for you like a carpet

That ye may walk therein along spacious paths

Said Noah, "O my Lord! they rebel against me, and they follow those whose riches and children do but aggravate their ruin

And they plotted a great plot

And they said, "Forsake not your gods; forsake not Wadd nor Sowah, Nor Yaghuth and Yahuk and Nesr

And they caused many to err; - and thou, too, O Muhammad! shalt be the means of increasing only error in the wicked

Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire; And they found that they had no helper save God

And Noah said, "Lord, leave not one single family of Infidels on the Earth

For if thou leave them they will beguile thy servants and will beget only sinners, infidels

O my Lord, forgive me, and my parents, and every one who, being a believer, shall enter my house, and believers men and women: and add to the wicked nought but perdition