English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, “Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment.”

He said: “O my people, indeed I am a clear warner to you

that you worship Allah and fear Him, and obey me

He will forgive you some of your sins and grant you respite until an appointed term. Indeed, when Allah’s appointed term comes, it cannot be delayed, if you only knew!”

He said, “My Lord, I have surely called my people night and day

but my call only drove them further away

Every time I call them so that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears and cover their faces with their garments, and persist in obstinacy and grow extremely arrogant

Then I called them openly

then I addressed them in public and in private

I said, ‘Seek forgiveness from your Lord. Indeed, He is Most Forgiving

He will shower you with abundant rain from the sky

and He will give you wealth and children, and bestow upon you gardens and rivers

What is the matter with you that you do not fear the Majesty of Allah

when He has created you in stages

Do you not see how Allah has created seven heavens, one above another

Allah has produced you from the earth like a plant

then He will return you into it, and then will bring you out again

Allah has made the earth wide spread for you

so that you may tread its spacious paths.’”

Noah said, “My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those whose wealth and children did not increase them except in loss

They have contrived a mighty plot

They said, ‘Do not abandon your gods; and do not abandon Wadd, Suwā‘, Yaghūth, Ya‘ūq, and Nasr.’

They have led many astray. So [O Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error.”

Because of their sins they were drowned and then were cast into the Fire, and they did not find any helpers against Allah

Noah said, “My Lord, do not leave on earth a single disbeliever

For if You leave them, they will surely lead Your slaves astray and beget none but wicked disbelievers

My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer, and all the believing men and women, and do not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin.”