Nuh

Pickthall

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Lo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them.

Yusuf Ali

1 We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty."

Pickthall

2 He said: O my people! Lo! I am a plain warner unto you

Yusuf Ali

2 He said: "O my People! I am to you a Warner, clear and open:

Pickthall

3 (Bidding you): Serve Allah and keep your duty unto Him and obey me,

Yusuf Ali

3 "That ye should worship Allah, fear Him and obey me:

Pickthall

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.

Yusuf Ali

4 "So He may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a stated Term: for when the Term given by Allah is accomplished, it cannot be put forward: if ye only knew."

Pickthall

5 He said: My Lord! Lo! I have called unto my people night and day

Yusuf Ali

5 He said: "O my Lord! I have called to my People night and day:

Pickthall

6 But all my calling doth but add to their repugnance;

Yusuf Ali

6 "But my call only increases (their) flight (from the Right).

Pickthall

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.

Yusuf Ali

7 "And every time I have called to them, that Thou mightest 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.

Pickthall

8 And lo! I have called unto them aloud,

Yusuf Ali

8 "So I have called to them aloud;

Pickthall

9 And lo! I have made public proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private.

Yusuf Ali

9 "Further I have spoken to them in public and secretly in private,

Pickthall

10 And I have said: Seek pardon of your Lord. Lo! He was ever Forgiving.

Yusuf Ali

10 "Saying, 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft - Forgiving;

Pickthall

11 He will let loose the sky for you in plenteous rain,

Yusuf Ali

11 "'He will send rain to you in abundance;

Pickthall

12 And will help you with wealth and sons, and will assign unto you Gardens and will assign unto you rivers.

Yusuf Ali

12 "'Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing water).

Pickthall

13 What aileth you that ye hope not toward Allah for dignity

Yusuf Ali

13 "'What is the matter with you, that ye place not your hope for kindness and long - suffering in Allah, -

Pickthall

14 When He created you by (divers) stages ?

Yusuf Ali

14 "'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?

Pickthall

15 See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,

Yusuf Ali

15 "'See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,

Pickthall

16 And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp ?

Yusuf Ali

16 "'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?

Pickthall

17 And Allah hath caused you to grow as a growth from the earth,

Yusuf Ali

17 "'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),

Pickthall

18 And afterward He maketh you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing.

Yusuf Ali

18 "'And in the End He will return you into the (earth), and raise you forth (again at the Resurrection)?

Pickthall

19 And Allah hath made the earth a wide expanse for you

Yusuf Ali

19 "'And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out),

Pickthall

20 That ye may thread the valley - ways thereof.

Yusuf Ali

20 "'That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads.'"

Pickthall

21 Noah said: My Lord! Lo! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught save ruin;

Yusuf Ali

21 Noah said: "O my Lord! They have disobeyed me, but they follow (men) whose wealth and children give them no increase but only Loss.

Pickthall

22 And they have plotted a mighty plot,

Yusuf Ali

22 "And they have devised a tremendous Plot.

Pickthall

23 And they have said: Forsake not your gods. Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.

Yusuf Ali

23 "And they have said (to each other), 'Abandon not your gods: Abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', neither Yaguth nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr'; -

Pickthall

24 And they have led many astray, and Thou increasest the wrong - doers in naught save error.

Yusuf Ali

24 "They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong - doers but in straying (from their mark)."

Pickthall

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.

Yusuf Ali

25 Because of their sins they were drowned (in the flood), and were made to enter the Fire (of Punishment): and they found - in lieu of Allah - none to help them.

Pickthall

26 And Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers in the land.

Yusuf Ali

26 And Noah, said: "O my Lord! Leave not of the Unbelievers, a single one on earth!

Pickthall

27 If Thou shouldst leave them, they will mislead Thy slaves and will beget none save lewd ingrates.

Yusuf Ali

27 "For, if Thou dost leave (any of) them, they will but mislead Thy devotees, and they will breed none but wicked ungrateful ones.

Pickthall

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.

Yusuf Ali

28 "O my Lord! Forgive me, my parents, all who enter my house in Faith, and (all) believing men and believing women: and to the wrong - doers grant Thou no increase but in perdition!"