Chapter 71, 28 verses
Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."
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
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.
He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,
He said: O my people! Surely I am a plain warner to you:
قال يا قوم إني لكم نذير مبين
He said: O my people! Lo! I am a plain warner unto you
[Saying], 'Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me.
That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me:
أن اعبدوا الله واتقوه وأطيعون
(Bidding you): Serve Allah and keep your duty unto Him and obey me,
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.' "
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
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.
He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.
He said: O my Lord! surely I have called my people by night and by day!
قال رب إني دعوت قومي ليلا ونهارا
He said: My Lord! Lo! I have called unto my people night and day
But my invitation increased them not except in flight.
But my call has only made them flee the more:
فلم يزدهم دعائي إلا فرارا
But all my calling doth but add to their repugnance;
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.
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
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.
Then I invited them publicly.
Then surely I called to them aloud:
ثم إني دعوتهم جهارا
And lo! I have called unto them aloud,
Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly
Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret:
ثم إني أعلنت لهم وأسررت لهم إسرارا
And lo! I have made public proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private.
And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.
Then I said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving:
فقلت استغفروا ربكم إنه كان غفارا
And I have said: Seek pardon of your Lord. Lo! He was ever Forgiving.
He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers
He will send down upon you the cloud, pouring down abundance of rain:
يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا
He will let loose the sky for you in plenteous rain,
And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.
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
And will help you with wealth and sons, and will assign unto you Gardens and will assign unto you rivers.
What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur
What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah?
ما لكم لا ترجون لله وقارا
What aileth you that ye hope not toward Allah for dignity
While He has created you in stages?
And indeed He has created you through various grades:
وقد خلقكم أطوارا
When He created you by (divers) stages ?
Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers
Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens, one above another,
ألم تروا كيف خلق الله سبع سماوات طباقا
See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,
And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?
And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp?
وجعل القمر فيهن نورا وجعل الشمس سراجا
And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp ?
And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.
And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth:
والله أنبتكم من الأرض نباتا
And Allah hath caused you to grow as a growth from the earth,
Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.
Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth:
ثم يعيدكم فيها ويخرجكم إخراجا
And afterward He maketh you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing.
And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse
And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse,
والله جعل لكم الأرض بساطا
And Allah hath made the earth a wide expanse for you
That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "
That you may go along therein in wide paths.
لتسلكوا منها سبلا فجاجا
That ye may thread the valley - ways thereof.
Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.
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
Noah said: My Lord! Lo! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught save ruin;
And they conspired an immense conspiracy.
And they have planned a very great plan.
ومكروا مكرا كبارا
And they have plotted a mighty plot,
And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
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 they have said: Forsake not your gods. Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."
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
And they have led many astray, and Thou increasest the wrong - doers in naught save error.
Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.
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
Because of their sins they were drowned, then made to enter a Fire. And they found they had no helpers in place of Allah.
And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.
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
And Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers in the land.
Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] .
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
If Thou shouldst leave them, they will mislead Thy slaves and will beget none save lewd ingrates.
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."
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
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.