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¹Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

²He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner -

³To worship Allāh, fear Him and obey me.

⁴He [i.e., Allāh] will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allāh, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew."

⁵He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

⁶But my invitation increased them not except in flight [i.e., aversion].

⁷And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments,[1761] persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.

⁸Then I invited them publicly.

⁹Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly

¹⁰And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.

¹¹He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers

¹²And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

¹³What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allāh [due] grandeur

¹⁴While He has created you in stages?[1762]

¹⁵Do you not consider how Allāh has created seven heavens in layers[1763]

¹⁶And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

¹⁷And Allāh has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

¹⁸Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

¹⁹And Allāh has made for you the earth an expanse

²⁰That you may follow therein roads of passage.'"

²¹Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

²²And they conspired an immense conspiracy

²³And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwāʿ or Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr.'[1764]

²⁴And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

²⁵Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allāh [any] helpers.

²⁶And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.

²⁷Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.

²⁸My 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."