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| 1. * | We sent NOAH to his people, and said to him, "Warn thou thy people ere there come on them an afflictive punishment." |
| 2. * | He said, "O my people! I come to you a plain-spoken warner: |
| 3. * | Serve God and fear Him, and obey me: |
| 4. * | 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!" |
| 5. * | He said, "Lord I have cried to my people night and day; |
| 6. * | and my cry doth but make them flee from me the more. |
| 7. * | 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. |
| 8. * | Then I cried aloud to them: |
| 9. * | Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address them: |
| 10. * | And I said, Beg forgiveness of your Lord, for He is ready to forgive. |
| 11. * | He will send down the very Heaven upon you in plenteous rains; |
| 12. * | And will increase you in wealth and children; and will give you gardens, and will give you watercourses:- |
| 13. * | What hath come to you that ye hope not for goodness from the hand of God? |
| 14. * | For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps. |
| 15. * | See ye not how God hath created the seven heavens one over the other? |
| 16. * | And He hath placed therein the moon as a light, and hath placed there the sun as a torch; |
| 17. * | And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant; |
| 18. * | Hereafter will He turn you back into it again, and will bring you forth anew- |
| 19. * | And God hath spread the earth for you like a carpet, |
| 20. * | That ye may walk therein along spacious paths."' |
| 21. * | Said Noah, "O my Lord! they rebel against me, and they follow those whose riches and children do but aggravate their ruin." |
| 22. * | And they plotted a great plot; |
| 23. * | And they said, "Forsake not your Gods; forsake not Wadd nor Sowah, Nor Yaghuth and Yahuk and Nesr;" |
| 24. * | And they caused many to err;-and thou, too, O Muhammad! shalt be the means of increasing only error in the wicked- |
| 25. * | Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire; And they found that they had no helper save God. |
| 26. * | And Noah said, "Lord, leave not one single family of Infidels on the Earth: |
| 27. * | For if thou leave them they will beguile thy servants and will beget only sinners, infidels. |
| 28. * | 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." |