Nuh

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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.

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1 Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

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

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2 He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,

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

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3 [Saying], 'Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me.

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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.

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4 Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.' "

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

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5 He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

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

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6 But my invitation increased them not except in flight.

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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.

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7 And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.

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8 And lo! I have called unto them aloud,

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8 Then I invited them publicly.

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

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9 Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly

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

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10 And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.

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

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11 He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers

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

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12 And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

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

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13 What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur

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14 When He created you by (divers) stages ?

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14 While He has created you in stages?

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

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15 Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers

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

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16 And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

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

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17 And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

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

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18 Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

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

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19 And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse

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20 That ye may thread the valley - ways thereof.

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20 That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "

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

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21 Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

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22 And they have plotted a mighty plot,

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22 And they conspired an immense conspiracy.

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

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23 And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.

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

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24 And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

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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.

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25 Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.

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

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26 And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.

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

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27 Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.

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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.

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28 My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."