In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. We sent Noah to his people: “Warn your people, before a severe punishment comes to them.”
2. He said, “O my people, I am a clear warner to you.
3. Worship God, fear Him, and obey me.
4. He will forgive your sins and delay you to a specified term. When God’s appointed time arrives, it can’t be deferred—if only you could understand.”
5. He implored, “My Lord, I called out to my people night and day.
6. But my call only increased their flight away.
7. Whenever I urged them to seek Your forgiveness, they would stick their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, persist in their stubbornness, and grow increasingly arrogant.
8. I called out to them openly.
9. And I appealed to them publicly, and I spoke with them privately.
10. I said, ‘Seek forgiveness from your Lord, for He is Ever-Forgiving.
11. He will send down abundant rain upon you.
12. And provide you with wealth and children, and bless you with gardens, and grant you rivers.
13. What’s the matter with you, that you don’t attribute to God due grandeur.
14. When He created you in stages.
15. Don’t you see how God created seven heavens in perfect harmony?
16. And He made the moon a luminary in them, and He made the sun a glowing lamp.
17. And God germinated you from the earth like plants.
18. Then He will return you to it, and He will extract you once again.
19. And God made the earth a spread for you.
20. So you may move along its wide roads.’”
21. Noah said, “My Lord, they defied me, and they followed those whose wealth and children only amplify their loss.”
22. They devised a formidable plan.
23. They said, “Never abandon your gods. Never abandon Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghoos, nor Yaooq, nor Nassr.
24. They misled many. So, increase the wrongdoers in nothing but straying.”
25. Because of their sins, they were drowned and entered into fire, finding no allies to defend them against God.
26. Noah prayed, “O my Lord, don’t leave a single disbeliever on earth.
27. If You allow them to remain, they will mislead Your devotees, and they will give birth to nothing but sinful unbelievers.
28. My Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my home as a believer, and all believing men and women, but increase the wrongdoers in nothing but ruin.”