SURAH
71: NUH.
In the name of Allah, the Gracious,
the Merciful
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We sent Nuh to his people: Warn your people
before there comes to them a grievous penalty.
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He said: O my people! I
am to you a warner, clear and open:
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That you should worship Allah, fear him, and obey me:
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So he may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a stated term: for
when the term given by Allah is accomplished, it cannot be put forward: if you
only knew.
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He said: O my Lord! I
have called to my people night and day:
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But my call only increases their flight.
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And every time I
have called to them, that you might forgive them, they have thrust their
fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, grown
obstinate, and given themselves up to arrogance.
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So I have
called to them aloud;
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Further I
have spoken to them in public and secretly in private,
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Saying, Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for he is oft-forgiving;
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He will send rain to you in abundance;
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Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on
you rivers.
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What is the matter with you, that you place not your hope for kindness and
longsuffering in Allah,
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Seeing that it is he who created you in diverse stages?
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Do you not see how Allah created the seven heavens one above another,
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And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a lamp?
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And Allah has produced you from the earth, growing,
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And in the end he will return you to it, and raise you from the dead?
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And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet,
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That you may go about in it, in spacious roads.
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Nuh said: O my Lord! They have disobeyed me,
but they follow men whose wealth and children give them no increase but only
loss.
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And they have devised a tremendous plot.
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And they have said, abandon not your gods: abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa,
neither Yaghuth nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr,
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They have already misled many; and grant no increase to the wrongdoers but in
straying.
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Because of their sins they were drowned, and were made to enter the fire: and
they found in lieu of Allah none to help them.
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And Nuh said: O my Lord! Leave not of the
unbelievers, a single one on earth!
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For, if you leave them, they will but mislead your devotees, and they will
breed none but wicked ungrateful ones.
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O my Lord! Forgive me, my parents, all who enter my house in faith, and
believing men and believing women: and to the wrongdoers grant no increase but
in perdition!