Surah “Noah”

as rendered by Muhammad Taqi Usmani — 28 verses

71:1
We sent NuH to his people (and said to him): .Warn your people before a painful punishment comes to them
71:2
He said, .O my people, I openly warn yo
71:3
that you must worship Allah, and fear Him, and obey me
71:4
and Allah will forgive you your sins, and will respite you to an appointed term. Indeed when Allah‘s term comes, it is not deferred, if you only know!
71:5
He said, .My Lord, I have called my people night and day
71:6
but my call added only to their flight (from the truth)
71:7
Whenever I called them, so that You might forgive them, they put their fingers into their ears, and wrapped their clothes around themselves, and grew obstinate, and waxed proud in extreme arrogance
71:8
Then I called them loudly
71:9
and then I spoke to them in public and spoke to them in private
71:10
So I said, ‘Pray to your Lord for your forgiveness,__ Indeed He is Very-Forgiving, _
71:11
and He will cause the heavens to rain upon you in abundance
71:12
and will help you with riches and sons, and will cause gardens to grow for you, and cause rivers to flow for you
71:13
What has happened to you that you do not appreciate the Majesty of Allah
71:14
while He has created you in different phases
71:15
Did you not see how Allah has created seven heavens one upon another
71:16
and has made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp
71:17
And Allah has caused you to grow well out of the earth
71:18
then He will send you back into it, and will bring you forth once again
71:19
And Allah has made the earth a spread for you
71:20
so that you may go about its broad ways.‘
71:21
And said NuH, .My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed him whose wealth and children added nothing to him but loss
71:22
and they devised a mighty plot
71:23
and said (to their people), .Never forsake your gods, and never forsake Wadd, nor Suwa‘, nor Yaghuth and Ya‘uq and Nasr
71:24
And they have led many astray. And (O my Lord,) let not the wrongdoers progress in anything but deviation from the right path
71:25
Because of their sins they were drowned, and then admitted into the Fire. So they found no helpers for them besides Allah
71:26
And said NuH, .My Lord, do not leave on earth even a single inhabitant (surviving) out of the disbelievers
71:27
If You leave them (surviving), they will lead Your servants astray, and will beget none but a sinful disbeliever
71:28
My Lord, grant pardon to me, and to my parents, and to everyone who enters my home as a believer, and to all the believing men and believing women, and do not increase the wrongdoers but in ruin