71:1  We sent Noah to his people: "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

71:2  He said, "O my people, I am a clear warner to you.

71:3  You shall worship God, reverence Him, and obey me.

71:4  He will then forgive you your sins and grant you respite for a specified term. When God's specified time arrives, it cannot be delayed if you only knew."

71:5  He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day,

71:6  but my invitation increased them in nothing other than evasion!

71:7  Whenever I invited them, that You may forgive them, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, persisted, and acted with great arrogance.

71:8  Then I invited them aloud.

71:9  Then I announced to them openly and also confided with them privately.

71:10  I said, 'Ask your Lord for forgiveness. Indeed, He is Forgiving.

71:11  He will shower you generously from the sky,

71:12  and supply you with wealth and children, and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.' "

71:13  What is the matter with you that you do not wish to accredit any dignity to God

71:14  when He has created you in stages?

71:15  Do you not see how God created seven universes in layers,

71:16  and rendered the moon a source of light therein, and made the sun a lamp?

71:17  And God made you grow out of the earth like plants,

71:18  then He returns you into it and will bring you out most certainly.

71:19  And God rendered the earth well spread out for you

71:20  so that you may thread wide paths therein.

71:21  Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increased him in nothing other than loss,

71:22  and they schemed a mighty scheme,

71:23  and they said, 'Do not abandon your gods, and do not abandon Wadd, or Suwaa, or Yaghouth and Ya'ooq and Nasr.'

71:24  They have misguided many, so do not increase the transgressors in anything but misguidance."

71:25  Because of their sins, they were drowned and admitted into a Fire. They found for themselves no helpers besides God.

71:26  And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave on earth from the disbelievers any inhabitant.

71:27  If You leave them, they will misguide Your servants, and they will beget nothing but depraved disbelievers.

71:28  My Lord, forgive me and my parents and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and the believing men and women, and do not increase the transgressors except in destruction.