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We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement.'
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He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner,
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saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me,
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and He will forgive you your sins, and defer you to a stated term; God's term, when it comes, cannot be deferred, did you but know."'
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He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day,
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but my calling has only increased them in flight.
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And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud.
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Then indeed I called them openly;
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then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly,
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and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving,
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and He will loose heaven upon you in torrents
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and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers.
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What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God,
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seeing He created you by stages?
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Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another,
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and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp?
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And God caused you to grow out of the earth,
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then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth.
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And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet,
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that thereof you may thread ways, ravines."
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Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss,
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and have devised a mighty device
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and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr."
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And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error!'
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And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them.
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And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one.
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Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines.
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My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whosoever enters my house as a believer, and the believers, men and women alike; and do Thou not increase the evildoers save in ruin!'
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