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| 1. * | BEHOLD. We sent Noah unto his people. [saying:] "Warn thy people ere grievous suffering befall them! |
| 2. * | [And Noah] said: "O my people! I am but a plain warner to you, [sent to tell you] |
| 3. * | that you should worship God [alone] and be conscious of Him. "Now do pay heed unto me, |
| 4. * | so that He may forgive you some of your sins, and grant you respite until a term known [to Him alone]: [1]1 but, behold, when the term appointed by God does come, it can never be put back - if you but knew it!" |
| 5. * | [And after a time, Noah] said: "O my Sustainer! Verily, I have been calling unto my people night and day |
| 6. * | but my call has only caused them to flee farther and farther away [from Thee]. [2]2 |
| 7. * | And behold, whenever I called unto them with a view to Thy granting them forgiveness, they put their fingers into their ears, and wrapped themselves up in their garments [of sin]; [3]3 and grew obstinate, and became [yet more] arrogant in their false pride. |
| 8. * | "And behold I called unto them openly; |
| 9. * | and, behold I preached to them in public; and I spoke to them secretly, in private; |
| 10. * | and I said: "Ask your Sustainer to forgive you your sins - for, verily, He is all-forgiving! |
| 11. * | He will shower upon you heavenly blessings abundant, [4]4 |
| 12. * | and will aid you with worldly goods and children, and will bestow upon you gardens, and bestow upon you running waters. [5]5 |
| 13. * | "What is amiss with you that you cannot look forward to God's majesty, [6]6 |
| 14. * | seeing that He has created [every one of] you in successive stages? [7]7 |
| 15. * | "Do you not see how God has created seven heavens in full harmony with one another, [8]8 |
| 16. * | and has set up within them the moon as a light [reflected] and set up the sun as a [radiant] lamp? [9]9 |
| 17. * | "And God has caused you to grow out of the earth in [gradual] growth; [10]10 and thereafter He will return you to it [in death]: |
| 18. * | and [then] He will bring you forth [from It] in resurrection. [11]11 |
| 19. * | "And God has made the earth a wide expanse for you, |
| 20. * | so that you might walk thereon on spacious paths.'" [12]12 |
| 21. * | [And] Noah continued: "O my Sustainer! Behold, they have opposed me [throughout], for they follow people whose wealth and children lead them increasingly into ruin, [13]13 |
| 22. * | and who have devised a most awesome blasphemy [against Thee], |
| 23. * | inasmuch as they said [to their followers], 'Do not ever abandon your gods: abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', and neither Yaghuth nor Ya'uq nor Nasr!' [14]14 |
| 24. * | "And so they have led many a one astray: hence, ordain Thou that these evildoers stray but farther and farther away [from all that they may desire]!" [15]15 |
| 25. * | And so, because of their sins, they were drowned [in the great flood], and were doomed to suffer the fire [of the hereafter]; [16]16 and they found none who could succour them against God. |
| 26. * | And Noah prayed: "O my Sustainer! Leave not on earth any of those who deny the truth: |
| 27. * | for, behold, If Thou dost leave them, they will [always try to] lead astray those who worship Thee, and will give birth to nothing but wickedness and stubborn ingratitude. [17]17 |
| 28. * | "O my Sustainer! Grant Thy forgiveness unto me and unto my parents, and unto everyone who enters my house as a believer, and unto all believing men and believing women [of later times]; and grant Thou that the doers of evil shall increasingly meet with destruction!" [18]18 |