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71. Nuh - Prophet Noah
| 1 | We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement.' |
| 2 | He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner, |
| 3 | saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me, |
| 4 | and He will forgive you your sins, and defer you to a stated term; God's term, when it comes, cannot be deferred, did you but know."' |
| 5 | He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day, |
| 6 | but my calling has only increased them in flight. |
| 7 | And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud. |
| 8 | Then indeed I called them openly; |
| 9 | then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly, |
| 10 | and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving, |
| 11 | and He will loose heaven upon you in torrents |
| 12 | and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers. |
| 13 | What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God, |
| 14 | seeing He created you by stages? |
| 15 | Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another, |
| 16 | and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp? |
| 17 | And God caused you to grow out of the earth, |
| 18 | then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth. |
| 19 | And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet, |
| 20 | that thereof you may thread ways, ravines." |
| 21 | Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss, |
| 22 | and have devised a mighty device |
| 23 | and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr." |
| 24 | And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error!' |
| 25 | And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them. |
| 26 | And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one. |
| 27 | Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines. |
| 28 | My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whosoever enters my house as a believer, and the believers, men and women alike; and do Thou not increase the evildoers save in ruin!' |