| | Rashad Khalifa rendition of Surah Noah(Nuh)
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| 71:1 | | We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them." |
| 71:2 | | He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you. |
| 71:3 | | "To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me. |
| 71:4 | | "He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew." |
| 71:5 | | He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day. |
| 71:6 | | "But my invitation only increased their aversion. |
| 71:7 | | "Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant. |
| 71:8 | | "Then I invited them publicl |
| 71:9 | | "Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately. |
| 71:10 | | "I said, `Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving. |
| 71:11 | | " `He will then shower you generously with rain. |
| 71:12 | | " `And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.' |
| 71:13 | | Why should you not strive to reverence GOD? |
| 71:14 | | He is the One who created you in stages. |
| 71:15 | | Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers? |
| 71:16 | | He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp. |
| 71:17 | | And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants. |
| 71:18 | | Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out. |
| 71:19 | | GOD made the earth habitable for you. |
| 71:20 | | That you may build roads therein. |
| 71:21 | | Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children. |
| 71:22 | | "They schemed terrible schemes. |
| 71:23 | | "They said, `Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa`, Yaghouth, Ya`ooq, and Nasr.' |
| 71:24 | | "They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss." |
| 71:25 | | Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD. |
| 71:26 | | Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth. |
| 71:27 | | "For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers. |
| 71:28 | | "My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation." |
