Nuh

Quran Text — Nuh

71:1 We sent Noah to his people: “Warn your people, before a severe punishment comes to them.”

71:2 He said, “O my people, I am a clear warner to you.

71:3 Worship Allah, fear Him, and obey me.

71:4 He will forgive your sins and delay you to a specified term. When Allah’s appointed time arrives, it can’t be deferred—if only you could understand.”

71:5 He implored, “My Lord, I called out to my people night and day.

71:6 But my call only increased their flight away.

71:7 Whenever I urged them to seek Your forgiveness, they would stick their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, persist in their stubbornness, and grow increasingly arrogant.

71:8 I called out to them openly.

71:9 And I appealed to them publicly, and I spoke with them privately.

71:10 I said, ‘Seek forgiveness from your Lord, for He is Ever-Forgiving.

71:11 He will send down abundant rain upon you.

71:12 And provide you with wealth and children, and bless you with gardens, and grant you rivers.

71:13 What’s the matter with you, that you don’t attribute to Allah due grandeur.

71:14 When He created you in stages.

71:15 Don’t you see how Allah created seven heavens in perfect harmony?

71:16 And He made the moon a luminary in them, and He made the sun a glowing lamp.

71:17 And Allah germinated you from the earth like plants.

71:18 Then He will return you to it, and He will extract you once again.

71:19 And Allah made the earth a spread for you.

71:20 So you may move along its wide roads.’”

71:21 Noah said, “My Lord, they defied me, and they followed those whose wealth and children only amplify their loss.”

71:22 They devised a formidable plan.

71:23 They said, “Never abandon your gods. Never abandon Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghoos, nor Yaooq, nor Nassr.

71:24 They misled many. So, increase the wrongdoers in nothing but straying.”

71:25 Because of their sins, they were drowned and entered into fire, finding no allies to defend them against Allah.

71:26 Noah prayed, “O my Lord, don’t leave a single disbeliever on earth.

71:27 If You allow them to remain, they will mislead Your devotees, and they will give birth to nothing but sinful unbelievers.

71:28 My Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my home as a believer, and all believing men and women, but increase the wrongdoers in nothing but ruin.”