English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

Surely We sent Nuh to his people (saying), "Warn your people even before there comes up to them a painful torment

He said, "O my people, surely I am to you an evident warner

(Saying) Worship Allah, and be pious to Him, and obey me

He will forgive you (some) of your guilty deeds and defer you to a stated term; surely the term of Allah, when it comes, cannot be deferred, if you (only) know

He said, "Lord! Surely I have called my people by night and by daytime

Yet my calling increased them (in nothing) except in flight

And surely whenever I call them that You may forgive them, they set (Literally: made "up") their fingers in their ears, and enveloped themselves with their clothes, and persisted, and waxed proud (with insolent) arrogance (Literally: in "arrogant" pride)

Thereafter, surely I called them aloud

Thereafter, surely I called them publicly, and I secretly (spoke) to them in private (Literally: in secret "conversation)

So I have said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord; surely He has been (The) Superb Forgiver

He will send down on you (rain) from the heaven showering plentifully

And He will supply you with riches and sons, (Or: seeds) and will set up (Literally: make) for you gardens, and will set up for you rivers

For what (reason) you do not hope to get reward from Allah for having reverence towards Him

And He already created you by stages

Have you not seen how Allah created seven heavens as strata, (i.e., in layers)

And He has made the moon therein for a light, and He has made the sun for a luminary

And Allah has caused you to grow as a growth from the earth

Thereafter He will bring you back into it, and He will bring you out (again) a (new) forthcoming (Literally: a bringing out)

And Allah has the earth for you as an outspread (rug)

That you may travel along thereof (spacious) ways, ravines

Nuh said, "Lord! Surely they have disobeyed me, and closely followed him whose wealth and children have not increased them in anything except (greater) loss

And they have schemed a heinous scheming

And they have said, ‘Definitely do not leave (behind) your gods, and do not definitely leave behind Wadd or Suwa‘ or Yaghuth or Ya‘uq or Nasr (These are names of pagan gods)

(And they have already led many into error. And increase You Allah), the unjust ones in nothing except error

For whatever offenses (they committed), they were drowned, and then were made to enter a Fire; so they did not find, apart from Allah, any ready vindicators

And Nuh said, "Lord! Do not leave (out) upon the earth of the disbelievers any residence-dweller

Surely in case You leave them behind, they will lead Your bondmen into error, and will beget none except the most- disbelieving impious

Lord, Forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my home as believer, and male believers and female believers; and do not increase the unjust ones except in annihilation