| | Arthur John Arberry rendition of Surah Noah(Nuh)
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| 71:1 | | We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement. |
| 71:2 | | He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner |
| 71:3 | | saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me |
| 71:4 | | 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." |
| 71:5 | | He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day |
| 71:6 | | but my calling has only increased them in flight |
| 71:7 | | 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 |
| 71:8 | | Then indeed I called them openly |
| 71:9 | | then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly |
| 71:10 | | and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving |
| 71:11 | | and He will loose heaven upon you in torrent |
| 71:12 | | and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers |
| 71:13 | | What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God |
| 71:14 | | seeing He created you by stages |
| 71:15 | | Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another |
| 71:16 | | and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp |
| 71:17 | | And God caused you to grow out of the earth |
| 71:18 | | then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth |
| 71:19 | | And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet |
| 71:20 | | that thereof you may thread ways, ravines." |
| 71:21 | | Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss |
| 71:22 | | and have devised a mighty devic |
| 71:23 | | and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr." |
| 71:24 | | And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error! |
| 71:25 | | And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them |
| 71:26 | | And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one |
| 71:27 | | Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines |
| 71:28 | | 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! |
