We sent Noah to his people: "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."
He said, "O my people, I am a clear warner to you.
You shall worship God, reverence Him, and obey me.
He will then forgive you your sins and grant you respite for a specified term. When God's specified time arrives, it cannot be delayed if you only knew."
He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day,
but my invitation increased them in nothing other than evasion!
Whenever I invited them, that You may forgive them, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, persisted, and acted with great arrogance.
Then I invited them aloud.
Then I announced to them openly and also confided with them privately.
I said, 'Ask your Lord for forgiveness. Indeed, He is Forgiving.
He will shower you generously from the sky,
and supply you with wealth and children, and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.' "
What is the matter with you that you do not wish to accredit any dignity to God
when He has created you in stages?
Do you not see how God created seven universes in layers,
and rendered the moon a source of light therein, and made the sun a lamp?
And God made you grow out of the earth like plants,
then He returns you into it and will bring you out most certainly.
And God rendered the earth well spread out for you
so that you may thread wide paths therein.
Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increased him in nothing other than loss,
and they schemed a mighty scheme,
and they said, 'Do not abandon your gods, and do not abandon Wadd, or Suwaa, or Yaghouth and Ya'ooq and Nasr.'
They have misguided many, so do not increase the transgressors in anything but misguidance."
Because of their sins, they were drowned and admitted into a Fire. They found for themselves no helpers besides God.
And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave on earth from the disbelievers any inhabitant.
If You leave them, they will misguide Your servants, and they will beget nothing but depraved disbelievers.
My Lord, forgive me and my parents and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and the believing men and women, and do not increase the transgressors except in destruction.