Surah Nuh (Noah) - Saeed Malik Translation

71:1  WE sent Noah to his people: “Warn your people before an agonizing punishment comes to them.”

71:2  He said, “O my people! I am a plain warner unto you:

71:3  Serve Allah and be conscious of HIM and do obey me

71:4  That HE may forgive you of your trespasses and grant you time until a defined term. Indeed, the term set by Allah, when it is on hand, it will not be delayed— if you were to know.”

71:5  He said, “My Rabb, I have called my people night and day—

71:6  But my call increases them in nothing except flight

71:7  And every time I invited them that YOU may grant them forgiveness, they plugged their ears with their fingers, and they drew their cloaks over themselves, and persisted in attitude and arrogantly defied with growing arrogance.

71:8  Then I invited them aloud,

71:9  Then I announced openly unto them, and I confided unto them privately—

71:10  [In all those ways] I said, “Seek forgiveness from your Rabb. HE is ever the source of all forgiveness.

71:11  HE will dispatch the sky upon you in showers,

71:12  And HE will supplement you with wealth and children and render gardens for you and place rivers for you.

71:13  What is the matter with you that you do not look hopefully to Allah with reverence?

71:14  While HE did create you in succeeding stages.

71:15  Do you not see how HE created the seven heavens— endlessly replicated?

71:16  And HE placed the moon therein as radiance and the sun as a lamp?

71:17  And Allah has sprouted you from the earth, like all sprouting,

71:18  then HE will cycle you back into it and bring you forth for another emergence.

71:19  And Allah has made the earth as an open carpet for you,

71:20  For you to gain passage through its accessible ways.”

71:21  Said Noah, “My Rabb, they have disobeyed me and followed such whose wealth and children add nothing but ruin.

71:22  And they orchestrated a monstrous plot,

71:23  and stated [for their people], ‘You are definitely not to abandon your gods, and definitely not to abandon Wadd, or Suwa, or Yaghuth and Ya’uq and Nasr.’

71:24  And they have already misled many. Do not increase the wrongdoers except in error.”

71:25  Because of their sins, they were drowned and so drawn into a fire. So, then they found not for themselves any helper other than Allah.

71:26  Noah had said, “My Rabb, do not leave on the land any dweller from the disbelievers

71:27  Surely, if YOU leave them to be, they will mislead YOUR worshippers and they will not beget except ungrateful degenerates.

71:28  My Rabb, grant forgiveness to me and to my parents and whosoever enters my house seeking peace and safety, and to the believing men and believing women and increase nothing for the persistent wrongdoers except destruction.”