In the name of Allah,
the Beneficent,
the Merciful.
[71.1]
Surely We sent Nuh to his people,
saying:
Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement.
[71.2]
He said:
O my people!
Surely I am a plain warner to you:
[71.3]
That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me:
[71.4]
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!
[71.5]
He said:
O my Lord!
surely I have called my people by night and by day!
[71.6]
But my call has only made them flee the more:
[71.7]
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:
[71.8]
Then surely I called to them aloud:
[71.9]
Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret:
[71.10]
Then I said,
Ask forgiveness of your Lord,
surely He is the most Forgiving:
[71.11]
He will send down upon you the cloud,
pouring down abundance of rain:
[71.12]
And help you with wealth and sons,
and make for you gardens,
and make for you rivers.
[71.13]
What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah?
[71.14]
And indeed He has created you through various grades:
[71.15]
Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens ,
one above another,
[71.16]
And made the moon therein a light,
and made the sun a lamp?
[71.17]
And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth:
[71.18]
Then He returns you to it,
then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth:
[71.19]
And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse,
[71.20]
That you may go along therein in wide paths.
[71.21]
Nuh said:
My Lord!
surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss.
[71.22]
And they have planned a very great plan.
[71.23]
And they say:
By no means leave your gods,
nor leave Wadd,
nor Suwa;
nor Yaghus,
and Yauq and Nasr.
[71.24]
And indeed they have led astray many,
and do not increase the unjust in aught but error.
[71.25]
Because of their wrongs they were drowned,
then made to enter fire,
so they did not find any helpers besides Allah.
[71.26]
And Nuh said:
My Lord!
leave not upon the land any dweller from among the unbelievers:
[71.27]
For surely if Thou leave them they will lead astray Thy servants,
and will not beget any but immoral,
ungrateful (children)
[71.28]
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!