We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement.
He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner
saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me
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."
He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day
but my calling has only increased them in flight
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
Then indeed I called them openly
then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly
and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving
and He will loose heaven upon you in torrent
and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers
What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God
seeing He created you by stages
Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another
and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp
And God caused you to grow out of the earth
then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth
And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet
that thereof you may thread ways, ravines."
Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss
and have devised a mighty device
and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr."
And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error!
And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them
And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one
Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines
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!