English - Chapter 71 - Nuh

We sent Noah forth to his people, saying, "Warn your people before there comes upon them a grievous punishment

[Noah] said, "My people! I am but a plain warner to you

that you should worship God [alone] and be conscious of Him. Pay heed to me

He will forgive your sins and will grant you respite till an appointed time. When the time appointed by God arrives, it cannot be postponed, if you only knew

He said, "My Lord! I have called my people night and day

but my pleas have only increased their aversion

Every time I have called to them, so that You might forgive them, they have only thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, grown obstinate, and given themselves up to arrogance

Then I called them openly

and spoke to them in public and in private

Then I said, "Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Surely He is the most forgiving

He will send down abundant rain from the sky for you

increase your wealth and sons; and grant you gardens and waterways

What is the matter with you that you deny the greatness of God

when He has created you through different stages of existence

Do you not see how God has created the seven heavens one above another

and made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp

how God has produced you from the earth and caused you to grow

how He will then return you to it and bring you forth again

how God has spread the earth out for you

so that you may walk along its spacious paths

Noah supplicated, "Lord, they have disobeyed me, and followed those whose wealth and children have only added to their ruin

and they have hatched a mighty plot

and they said [to their followers], "Do not ever abandon your deities: abandon neither Wadd, nor Suwa', and neither Yaghuth, nor Yauq nor Nasr

They have led many astray; so lead the wrongdoers to further error

They were drowned and sent to Hell for their misdeeds; they found no one to help them against God

Noah prayed, "O my Lord! Do not leave on earth a single one of those who deny the truth

if You leave any, they will misguide Your servants, and they will beget none but sinners and deniers of truth

Lord! Forgive me and my parents and every true believer who enters my house, forgive all the believing men and believing women; and bestow no increase upon the wrongdoers except in ruin