| | John Medows Rodwell rendition of Surah Noah(Nuh)
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| 71:1 | | We sent NOAH to his people, and said to him, "Warn thou thy people ere there come on them an afflictive punishment." |
| 71:2 | | He said, "O my people! I come to you a plain-spoken warner |
| 71:3 | | Serve God and fear Him, and obey me |
| 71:4 | | Your sins will He forgive you, and respite you till the fixed Time; for when God's fixed Time hath come, it shall not be put back. Would that ye knew this!" |
| 71:5 | | He said, "Lord I have cried to my people night and day |
| 71:6 | | and my cry doth but make them flee from me the more |
| 71:7 | | So oft as I cry to them, that thou mayest forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrap themselves in their garments, and persist in their error, and are disdainfully disdainful |
| 71:8 | | Then I cried aloud to them |
| 71:9 | | Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address them |
| 71:10 | | And I said, Beg forgiveness of your Lord, for He is ready to forgive |
| 71:11 | | He will send down the very Heaven upon you in plenteous rains |
| 71:12 | | And will increase you in wealth and children; and will give you gardens, and will give you watercourses: |
| 71:13 | | What hath come to you that ye hope not for goodness from the hand of God |
| 71:14 | | For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps |
| 71:15 | | See ye not how God hath created the seven heavens one over the other |
| 71:16 | | And He hath placed therein the moon as a light, and hath placed there the sun as a torch |
| 71:17 | | And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant |
| 71:18 | | Hereafter will He turn you back into it again, and will bring you forth anew |
| 71:19 | | And God hath spread the earth for you like a carpet |
| 71:20 | | That ye may walk therein along spacious paths." |
| 71:21 | | Said Noah, "O my Lord! they rebel against me, and they follow those whose riches and children do but aggravate their ruin." |
| 71:22 | | And they plotted a great plot |
| 71:23 | | And they said, "Forsake not your gods; forsake not Wadd nor Sowah, Nor Yaghuth and Yahuk and Nesr;" |
| 71:24 | | And they caused many to err; - and thou, too, O Muhammad! shalt be the means of increasing only error in the wicked |
| 71:25 | | Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire; And they found that they had no helper save God |
| 71:26 | | And Noah said, "Lord, leave not one single family of Infidels on the Earth |
| 71:27 | | For if thou leave them they will beguile thy servants and will beget only sinners, infidels |
| 71:28 | | O my Lord, forgive me, and my parents, and every one who, being a believer, shall enter my house, and believers men and women: and add to the wicked nought but perdition." |
