The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/71. Noah

71. Noah (Nuh)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Surely We sent Noah to his people, saying: Warn thy people before there come to them a painful chastisement. 

He said: O my people, surely I am a plain warner to you: 

That you should serve Allah and keep your duty to Him and obey me -- 

He will forgive you some of your sins and grant you respite to an appointed term. Surely the term of Allah, when it comes, is not postponed. Did you but know! 

He said: My Lord, I have called my people night and day: 

But my call has only made them flee the more. 

And whenever I call to them that Thou mayest forgive them, they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments, and persist and are big with pride. 

Then surely I have called to them aloud, 

<section begin="71:9"/>Then spoken to them in public and spoken to them in private, <section end="71:9"/>

<section begin="71:10"/>So I have said: Ask forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever Forgiving: <section end="71:10"/>

<section begin="71:11"/>He will send down upon you rain, pouring in abundance, <section end="71:11"/>

<section begin="71:12"/>And help you with wealth and sons, and make for you gardens, and make for you rivers. <section end="71:12"/>

<section begin="71:13"/>What is the matter with you that you hope not for greatness from Allah? <section end="71:13"/>

<section begin="71:14"/>And indeed He has created you by various stages. <section end="71:14"/>

<section begin="71:15"/>See you not how Allah has created the seven heavens alike, <section end="71:15"/>

<section begin="71:16"/>And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp? <section end="71:16"/>

<section begin="71:17"/>And Allah has caused you to grow out of the earth as a growth, <section end="71:17"/>

<section begin="71:18"/>Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth. <section end="71:18"/>

<section begin="71:19"/>And Allah has made the earth a wide expanse for you; <section end="71:19"/>

<section begin="71:20"/>That you may go along therein in spacious paths. <section end="71:20"/>

<section begin="71:21"/>Noah said: My Lord, surely they disobey me and follow him whose wealth and children have increased him in naught but loss. <section end="71:21"/>

<section begin="71:22"/>And they have planned a mighty plan. <section end="71:22"/>

<section begin="71:23"/>And they say: Forsake not your gods; nor forsake Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaguth and Ya'uq and Nasr. <section end="71:23"/>

<section begin="71:24"/>And indeed they have led many astray. And increase Thou the wrongdoers in naught but perdition. <section end="71:24"/>

<section begin="71:25"/>Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter Fire, so they found no helpers besides Allah. <section end="71:25"/>

<section begin="71:26"/>And Noah said My Lord, leave not of the disbelievers any dweller on the land. <section end="71:26"/>

<section begin="71:27"/>For if Thou leave them, they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but immoral, ungrateful ones. <section end="71:27"/>

<section begin="71:28"/>My Lord, forgive me and my parents and him who enters my house believing, and the believing men and the believing women. And increase nor the wrongdoers in aught but destruction! <section end="71:28"/>