| Surah Nuh | |||
| In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. | |||
| 1 | Verily, We sent Nûh ( Noah ) to his people ( Saying ): " Warn your people before there comes to them a painful torment. " | ||
| 2 | He said: " O my people! Verily, I am a plain warner to you, | ||
| 3 | " That you should worship Allâh ( Alone ), be dutiful to Him, and obey me, | ||
| 4 | " He ( Allâh ) will forgive you of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Verily, the term of Allâh when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you but knew. " | ||
| 5 | He said: " O my Lord! Verily, I have called my people night and day ( i. e. secretly and openly to accept the doctrine of Islâmic Monotheism ), | ||
| 6 | " But all my calling added nothing but to ( their ) flight ( from the truth ). | ||
| 7 | " And verily! Every time I called unto them that You might forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, and persisted ( in their refusal ), and magnified themselves in pride. | ||
| 8 | " Then verily, I called to them openly ( aloud ); | ||
| 9 | " Then verily, I proclaimed to them in public, and I have appealed to them in private, | ||
| 10 | " I said ( to them ): 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; Verily, He is Oft-Forgiving; | ||
| 11 | 'He will send rain to you in abundance; | ||
| 12 | 'And give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.' " | ||
| 13 | What is the matter with you, [ that you fear not Allâh ( His punishment ), and ] you hope not for reward ( from Allâh or you believe not in His Oneness ). | ||
| 14 | While He has created you in ( different ) stages [ i. e. first Nutfah, then 'Alaqah and then Mudghah, see ( V. 23: 13, 14 ) the Qur'ân ]. | ||
| 15 | See you not how Allâh has created the seven heavens one above another, | ||
| 16 | And has made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp? | ||
| 17 | And Allâh has brought you forth from the ( dust of ) earth. [ Tafsir At-Tabarî, Vol. 29, Page 97 ]. | ||
| 18 | Afterwards He will return you into it ( the earth ), and bring you forth ( again on the Day of Resurrection )? | ||
| 19 | And Allâh has made for you the earth wide spread ( an expanse ). | ||
| 20 | That you may go about therein in broad roads. | ||
| 21 | Nûh ( Noah ) said: " My Lord! They have disobeyed me, and followed one whose wealth and children give him no increase but only loss. | ||
| 22 | " And they have plotted a mighty plot. | ||
| 23 | " And they have said: 'You shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave Wadd, nor Suwâ', nor Yaghûth, nor Ya'ûq, nor Nasr ( names of the idols ); | ||
| 24 | " And indeed they have led many astray. And ( O Allâh ): 'Grant no increase to the Zâlimûn ( polytheists, wrong-doers, and disbelievers, etc. ) save error.' " | ||
| 25 | Because of their sins they were drowned, then were made to enter the Fire, and they found none to help them instead of Allâh. | ||
| 26 | And Nûh ( Noah ) said: " My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers on the earth! | ||
| 27 | " If You leave them, they will mislead Your slaves, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers. " | ||
| 28 | " My Lord! Forgive me, and my parents, and him who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. And to the Zâlimûn ( polytheists, wrong-doers, and disbelievers, etc. ) grant You no increase but destruction! " | ||