Surah “Noah”

Surely We sent Nuh to his people, saying: Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement

He said: O my people! Surely I am a plain warner to you

That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me

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

He said: O my Lord! surely I have called my people by night and by day

But my call has only made them flee the more

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

Then surely I called to them aloud

Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret

Then I said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving

He will send down upon you the cloud, pouring down abundance of rain

And help you with wealth and sons, and make for you gardens, and make for you rivers

What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah

And indeed He has created you through various grades

Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens, one above another

And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp

And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth

Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth

And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse

That you may go along therein in wide paths

Nuh said: My Lord! surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss

And they have planned a very great plan

And they say: By no means leave your gods, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa; nor Yaghus, and Yauq and Nasr

And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error

Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter fire, so they did not find any helpers besides Allah

And Nuh said: My Lord! leave not upon the land any dweller from among the unbelievers

For surely if Thou leave them they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but immoral, ungrateful (children

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