Chapter 71, 28 verses
We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty."
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنا أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أنذر قومك من قبل أن يأتيهم عذاب أليم
He said: "O my People! I am to you a Warner, clear and open:
قال يا قوم إني لكم نذير مبين
"That ye should worship Allah, fear Him and obey me:
أن اعبدوا الله واتقوه وأطيعون
"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."
يغفر لكم من ذنوبكم ويؤخركم إلى أجل مسمى ۚ إن أجل الله إذا جاء لا يؤخر ۖ لو كنتم تعلمون
He said: "O my Lord! I have called to my People night and day:
قال رب إني دعوت قومي ليلا ونهارا
"But my call only increases (their) flight (from the Right).
فلم يزدهم دعائي إلا فرارا
"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.
وإني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا أصابعهم في آذانهم واستغشوا ثيابهم وأصروا واستكبروا استكبارا
"So I have called to them aloud;
ثم إني دعوتهم جهارا
"Further I have spoken to them in public and secretly in private,
ثم إني أعلنت لهم وأسررت لهم إسرارا
"Saying, 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft - Forgiving;
فقلت استغفروا ربكم إنه كان غفارا
"'He will send rain to you in abundance;
يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا
"'Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing water).
ويمددكم بأموال وبنين ويجعل لكم جنات ويجعل لكم أنهارا
"'What is the matter with you, that ye place not your hope for kindness and long - suffering in Allah, -
ما لكم لا ترجون لله وقارا
"'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?
وقد خلقكم أطوارا
"'See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,
ألم تروا كيف خلق الله سبع سماوات طباقا
"'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?
وجعل القمر فيهن نورا وجعل الشمس سراجا
"'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),
والله أنبتكم من الأرض نباتا
"'And in the End He will return you into the (earth), and raise you forth (again at the Resurrection)?
ثم يعيدكم فيها ويخرجكم إخراجا
"'And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out),
والله جعل لكم الأرض بساطا
"'That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads.'"
لتسلكوا منها سبلا فجاجا
Noah said: "O my Lord! They have disobeyed me, but they follow (men) whose wealth and children give them no increase but only Loss.
قال نوح رب إنهم عصوني واتبعوا من لم يزده ماله وولده إلا خسارا
"And they have devised a tremendous Plot.
ومكروا مكرا كبارا
"And they have said (to each other), 'Abandon not your gods: Abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', neither Yaguth nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr'; -
وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث ويعوق ونسرا
"They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong - doers but in straying (from their mark)."
وقد أضلوا كثيرا ۖ ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ضلالا
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.
مما خطيئاتهم أغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا فلم يجدوا لهم من دون الله أنصارا
And Noah, said: "O my Lord! Leave not of the Unbelievers, a single one on earth!
وقال نوح رب لا تذر على الأرض من الكافرين ديارا
"For, if Thou dost leave (any of) them, they will but mislead Thy devotees, and they will breed none but wicked ungrateful ones.
إنك إن تذرهم يضلوا عبادك ولا يلدوا إلا فاجرا كفارا
"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!"
رب اغفر لي ولوالدي ولمن دخل بيتي مؤمنا وللمؤمنين والمؤمنات ولا تزد الظالمين إلا تبارا