Surah 71
1 See! We sent Noah to his people (saying): Warn your people ere the painful doom come to them.
2 He said: O my people! See! I am a plain warner to you
3 (Bidding you): Serve Allah and keep your duty to Him and obey me,
4 That He may forgive you somewhat of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. See! the term of Allah, when it cometh, cannot be delayed, if you but knew.
5 He said: My Lord! See! I have called to my people night and day
6 But all my calling does but add to their repugnance;
7 And see! whenever I call to them that You 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 see! I have called to them aloud,
9 And see! I have made public proclamation to them, and I have appealed to them in private.
10 And I have said: Seek pardon of your Lord. See! 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 to you Gardens and will assign to you rivers.
13 What ails you that you hope not toward Allah for dignity
14 When He created you by (many) stages ?
15 See you not how Allah has created seven heavens in harmony,
16 And has made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp ?
17 And Allah has 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 has made the earth a wide expanse for you
20 That you may thread the valley-ways thereof.
21 Noah said: My Lord! See! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in nothing 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 You increasest the wrong-doers in nothing 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 You shouldst leave them, they will mislead your 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.