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We sent NOAH to his people, and said to him, "Warn thou thy people ere there come on them an afflictive punishment."
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He said, "O my people! I come to you a plain-spoken warner:
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Serve God and fear Him, and obey me:
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Your sins will He forgive you, and respite you till the fixed Time; for when God's fixed Time hath come, it shall not be put back. Would that ye knew this!"
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He said, "Lord I have cried to my people night and day;
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and my cry doth but make them flee from me the more.
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So oft as I cry to them, that thou mayest forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrap themselves in their garments, and persist in their error, and are disdainfully disdainful.
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Then I cried aloud to them:
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Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address them:
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And I said, Beg forgiveness of your Lord, for He is ready to forgive.
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He will send down the very Heaven upon you in plenteous rains;
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And will increase you in wealth and children; and will give you gardens, and will give you watercourses:-
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What hath come to you that ye hope not for goodness from the hand of God?
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For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps.
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See ye not how God hath created the seven heavens one over the other?
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And He hath placed therein the moon as a light, and hath placed there the sun as a torch;
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And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant;
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Hereafter will He turn you back into it again, and will bring you forth anew-
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And God hath spread the earth for you like a carpet,
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That ye may walk therein along spacious paths."'
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Said Noah, "O my Lord! they rebel against me, and they follow those whose riches and children do but aggravate their ruin."
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And they plotted a great plot;
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And they said, "Forsake not your Gods; forsake not Wadd nor Sowah, Nor Yaghuth and Yahuk and Nesr;"
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And they caused many to err;-and thou, too, O Muhammad! shalt be the means of increasing only error in the wicked-
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Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire; And they found that they had no helper save God.
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And Noah said, "Lord, leave not one single family of Infidels on the Earth:
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For if thou leave them they will beguile thy servants and will beget only sinners, infidels.
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O my Lord, forgive me, and my parents, and every one who, being a believer, shall enter my house, and believers men and women: and add to the wicked nought but perdition."
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