71 - Surah Nuh نوح

Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

innā arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihi an andhir qawmaka min qabli an yatiyahum ʿadhābun alīmun

He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,

qāla yāqawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīnun

[Saying], 'Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me.

ani uʿ'budū l-laha wa-ittaqūhu wa-aṭīʿūni

Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.' "

yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wayu-akhir'kum ilā ajalin musamman inna ajala l-lahi idhā jāa lā yu-akharu law kuntum taʿlamūna

He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

qāla rabbi innī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wanahāran

But my invitation increased them not except in flight.

falam yazid'hum duʿāī illā firāran

And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.

wa-innī kullamā daʿawtuhum litaghfira lahum jaʿalū aṣābiʿahum fī ādhānihim wa-is'taghshaw thiyābahum wa-aṣarrū wa-is'takbarū is'tik'bāran

Then I invited them publicly.

thumma innī daʿawtuhum jihāran

Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly

thumma innī aʿlantu lahum wa-asrartu lahum is'rāran

And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.

faqul'tu is'taghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffāran

He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers

yur'sili l-samāa ʿalaykum mid'rāran

And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

wayum'did'kum bi-amwālin wabanīna wayajʿal lakum jannātin wayajʿal lakum anhāran

What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur

mā lakum lā tarjūna lillahi waqāran

While He has created you in stages?

waqad khalaqakum aṭwāran

Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers

alam taraw kayfa khalaqa l-lahu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqan

And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

wajaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wajaʿala l-shamsa sirājan

And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

wal-lahu anbatakum mina l-arḍi nabātan

Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukh'rijukum ikh'rājan

And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse

wal-lahu jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa bisāṭan

That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "

litaslukū min'hā subulan fijājan

Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

qāla nūḥun rabbi innahum ʿaṣawnī wa-ittabaʿū man lam yazid'hu māluhu wawaladuhu illā khasāran

And they conspired an immense conspiracy.

wamakarū makran kubbāran

And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.

waqālū lā tadharunna ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddan walā suwāʿan walā yaghūtha wayaʿūqa wanasran

And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalālan

Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.

mimmā khaṭīātihim ugh'riqū fa-ud'khilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūni l-lahi anṣāran

And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.

waqāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā l-arḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyāran

Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.

innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffāran

My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."

rabbi igh'fir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya mu'minan walil'mu'minīna wal-mu'mināti walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā tabāran