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| 1. * | We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them." |
| 2. * | He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you. |
| 3. * | "To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me. |
| 4. * | "He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew." |
| 5. * | He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day. |
| 6. * | "But my invitation only increased their aversion. |
| 7. * | "Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant. |
| 8. * | "Then I invited them publicly |
| 9. * | "Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately. |
| 10. * | "I said, `Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving. |
| 11. * | " `He will then shower you generously with rain. |
| 12. * | " `And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.' |
| 13. * | Why should you not strive to reverence GOD? |
| 14. * | He is the One who created you in stages. |
| 15. * | Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers? |
| 16. * | He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp. |
| 17. * | And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants. |
| 18. * | Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out. |
| 19. * | GOD made the earth habitable for you. |
| 20. * | That you may build roads therein. |
| 21. * | Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children. |
| 22. * | "They schemed terrible schemes. |
| 23. * | "They said, `Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa`, Yaghouth, Ya`ooq, and Nasr.' |
| 24. * | "They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss." |
| 25. * | Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD. |
| 26. * | Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth. |
| 27. * | "For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers. |
| 28. * | "My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation." |