71. Nuh: Noah
1 Lo! We sent Noah unto his
people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them.
2 He said: O my people! Lo!
I am a plain warner unto you
3 (Bidding you): Serve Allah
and keep your duty unto Him and obey me,
4 That He may forgive you somewhat
of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Lo! the term of Allah, when it
cometh, cannot be delayed, if ye but knew.
5 He said: My Lord! Lo! I have
called unto my people night and day
6 But all my calling doth but
add to their repugnance;
7 And lo! whenever I call unto
them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover
themselves with their garments and persist (in their refusal) and magnify themselves
in pride.
8 And lo! I have called unto
them aloud,
9 And lo! I have made public
proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private.
10 And I have said: Seek pardon
of your Lord. Lo! He was ever Forgiving.
11 He will let loose the sky
for you in plenteous rain,
12 And will help you with wealth
and sons, and will assign unto you Gardens and will assign unto you rivers.
13 What aileth you that ye hope
not toward Allah for dignity
14 When He created you by (divers)
stages ?
15 See ye not how Allah hath
created seven heavens in harmony,
16 And hath made the moon a
light therein, and made the sun a lamp ?
17 And Allah hath caused you
to grow as a growth from the earth,
18 And afterward He maketh you
return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing.
19 And Allah hath made the earth
a wide expanse for you
20 That ye may thread the valley-ways
thereof.
21 Noah said: My Lord! Lo! they
have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught
save ruin;
22 And they have plotted a mighty
plot,
23 And they have said: Forsake
not your gods. Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
24 And they have led many astray,
and Thou increasest the wrong-doers in naught save error.
25 Because of their sins they
were drowned, then made to enter a Fire. And they found they had no helpers in place
of Allah.
26 And Noah said: My Lord! Leave
not one of the disbelievers in the land.
27 If Thou shouldst leave them,
they will mislead Thy slaves and will beget none save lewd ingrates.
28 My Lord! Forgive me and my
parents and him who entereth my house believing, and believing men and believing
women, and increase not the wrong-doers in aught save ruin.
