Chapter 71, 28 verses
Surely We sent Nuh to his people, saying: Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنا أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أنذر قومك من قبل أن يأتيهم عذاب أليم
He said: O my people! Surely I am a plain warner to you:
قال يا قوم إني لكم نذير مبين
That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me:
أن اعبدوا الله واتقوه وأطيعون
He will forgive you some of your faults and grant you a delay to an appointed term; surely the term of Allah when it comes is not postponed; did you but know!
يغفر لكم من ذنوبكم ويؤخركم إلى أجل مسمى ۚ إن أجل الله إذا جاء لا يؤخر ۖ لو كنتم تعلمون
He said: O my Lord! surely I have called my people by night and by day!
قال رب إني دعوت قومي ليلا ونهارا
But my call has only made them flee the more:
فلم يزدهم دعائي إلا فرارا
And whenever I have called them that Thou mayest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, and persist and are puffed up with pride:
وإني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا أصابعهم في آذانهم واستغشوا ثيابهم وأصروا واستكبروا استكبارا
Then surely I called to them aloud:
ثم إني دعوتهم جهارا
Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret:
ثم إني أعلنت لهم وأسررت لهم إسرارا
Then I said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving:
فقلت استغفروا ربكم إنه كان غفارا
He will send down upon you the cloud, pouring down abundance of rain:
يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا
And help you with wealth and sons, and make for you gardens, and make for you rivers.
ويمددكم بأموال وبنين ويجعل لكم جنات ويجعل لكم أنهارا
What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah?
ما لكم لا ترجون لله وقارا
And indeed He has created you through various grades:
وقد خلقكم أطوارا
Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens, one above another,
ألم تروا كيف خلق الله سبع سماوات طباقا
And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp?
وجعل القمر فيهن نورا وجعل الشمس سراجا
And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth:
والله أنبتكم من الأرض نباتا
Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth:
ثم يعيدكم فيها ويخرجكم إخراجا
And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse,
والله جعل لكم الأرض بساطا
That you may go along therein in wide paths.
لتسلكوا منها سبلا فجاجا
Nuh said: My Lord! surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss.
قال نوح رب إنهم عصوني واتبعوا من لم يزده ماله وولده إلا خسارا
And they have planned a very great plan.
ومكروا مكرا كبارا
And they say: By no means leave your gods, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa; nor Yaghus, and Yauq and Nasr.
وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث ويعوق ونسرا
And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error.
وقد أضلوا كثيرا ۖ ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ضلالا
Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter fire, so they did not find any helpers besides Allah.
مما خطيئاتهم أغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا فلم يجدوا لهم من دون الله أنصارا
And Nuh said: My Lord! leave not upon the land any dweller from among the unbelievers:
وقال نوح رب لا تذر على الأرض من الكافرين ديارا
For surely if Thou leave them they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but immoral, ungrateful (children)
إنك إن تذرهم يضلوا عبادك ولا يلدوا إلا فاجرا كفارا
My Lord! forgive me and my parents and him who enters my house believing, and the believing men and the believing women; and do not increase the unjust in aught but destruction!
رب اغفر لي ولوالدي ولمن دخل بيتي مؤمنا وللمؤمنين والمؤمنات ولا تزد الظالمين إلا تبارا