71:1  Lo! We sent Noah to his people, saying, "Warn your people before there come upon them a painful doom."

71:2  He said, "O my people! Surely I am a plain Warner to you

71:3  "That you should serve Allah and be careful of your duty to Him and obey me

71:4  "He will forgive you some of your faults and grant you a delay for an appointed term; surely the term of Allah when it comes is not postponed; did you but know

71:5  He said, "O my Lord! Surely I have called my people by night and by day

71:6  "But my call has only increased their flight (from truth)

71:7  "And whenever I have called them that you may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, grow obstinate and puffed up with pride

71:8  "So I called to them aloud

71:9  "And lo! I have made public proclamations unto them, and I have appealed to them in private

71:10  "And I have said, ´Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving

71:11  71:11."´He will send down upon you an abundance of rain

71:12  "´And help you with wealth and sons, and bestow on you gardens, and bestow on you rivers

71:13  "´What ails you that you fear not the greatness of Allah

71:14  "´Seeing that He has created you through various stages

71:15  "´Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens, one above another (or in harmony)

71:16  "´And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp

71:17  "´And Allah has made you out of the earth as a gradual growth

71:18  "´Then He returns you to it, and then will He bring you forth a new bringing forth

71:19  "´And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse

71:20  "´ That you may go about in it in spacious paths (or valleys).´"

71:21  Noah said, "My Lord! Surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss

71:22  "And they devised a mighty plot

71:23  "And they say (to each other), ´By no means leave your gods, abandon neither Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghut, and Yauq and Nasr (their gods).´

71:24  "And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error

71:25  Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter Fire, so they did not find any helpers besides Allah

71:26  And Noah said, "My Lord! Leave not upon the land any dweller from among the unbelievers

71:27  "For surely if you leave them they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but immoral, ungrateful ones."

71:28  "My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and him who enters my house believing, and the believing men and the believing women; and do not increase the unjust in aught but perdition