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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ

Inna arsalna noohan ila qawmihi an anthir qawmaka min qabli an yatiyahum AAathabun aleemun

Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty."

Nuh  1    

قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌۭ مُّبِينٌ

Qala ya qawmi innee lakum natheerun mubeenun

He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,

He said: "O my People! I am to you a Warner, clear and open:

Nuh  2    

أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ

Ani oAAbudoo Allaha waittaqoohu waateeAAooni

[Saying], 'Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me.

"That ye should worship Allah, fear Him and obey me:

Nuh  3    

يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍۢ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَآءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ ۖ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Yaghfir lakum min thunoobikum wayuakhkhirkum ila ajalin musamman inna ajala Allahi itha jaa la yuakhkharu law kuntum taAAlamoona

Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.' "

"So He may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a stated Term: for when the Term given by Allah is accomplished, it cannot be put forward: if ye only knew."

Nuh  4    

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًۭا وَنَهَارًۭا

Qala rabbi innee daAAawtu qawmee laylan wanaharan

He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

He said: "O my Lord! I have called to my People night and day:

Nuh  5    

فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًۭا

Falam yazidhum duAAaee illa firaran

But my invitation increased them not except in flight.

"But my call only increases (their) flight (from the Right).

Nuh  6    

وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًۭا

Wainnee kullama daAAawtuhum litaghfira lahum jaAAaloo asabiAAahum fee athanihim waistaghshaw thiyabahum waasarroo waistakbaroo istikbaran

And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.

"And every time I have called to them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they have (only) thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, grown obstinate, and given themselves up to arrogance.

Nuh  7    

ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًۭا

Thumma innee daAAawtuhum jiharan

Then I invited them publicly.

"So I have called to them aloud;

Nuh  8    

ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًۭا

Thumma innee aAAlantu lahum waasrartu lahum israran

Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly

"Further I have spoken to them in public and secretly in private,

Nuh  9    

فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًۭا

Faqultu istaghfiroo rabbakum innahu kana ghaffaran

And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.

"Saying, 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft-Forgiving;

Nuh  10    

يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًۭا

Yursili alssamaa AAalaykum midraran

He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers

"'He will send rain to you in abundance;

Nuh  11    

وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍۢ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍۢ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَـٰرًۭا

Wayumdidkum biamwalin wabaneena wayajAAal lakum jannatin wayajAAal lakum anharan

And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

"'Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing water).

Nuh  12    

مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًۭا

Ma lakum la tarjoona lillahi waqaran

What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur

"'What is the matter with you, that ye place not your hope for kindness and long-suffering in Allah,-

Nuh  13    

وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا

Waqad khalaqakum atwaran

While He has created you in stages?

"'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?

Nuh  14    

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَـٰوَٰتٍۢ طِبَاقًۭا

Alam taraw kayfa khalaqa Allahu sabAAa samawatin tibaqan

Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers

"'See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,

Nuh  15    

وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًۭا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًۭا

WajaAAala alqamara feehinna nooran wajaAAala alshshamsa sirajan

And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

"'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?

Nuh  16    

وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًۭا

WaAllahu anbatakum mina alardi nabatan

And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

"'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),

Nuh  17    

ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًۭا

Thumma yuAAeedukum feeha wayukhrijukum ikhrajan

Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

"'And in the End He will return you into the (earth), and raise you forth (again at the Resurrection)?

Nuh  18    

وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًۭا

WaAllahu jaAAala lakumu alarda bisatan

And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse

"'And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out),

Nuh  19    

لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًۭا فِجَاجًۭا

Litaslukoo minha subulan fijajan

That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "

"'That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads.'"

Nuh  20    

قَالَ نُوحٌۭ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًۭا

Qala noohun rabbi innahum AAasawnee waittabaAAoo man lam yazidhu maluhu wawaladuhu illa khasaran

Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

Noah said: "O my Lord! They have disobeyed me, but they follow (men) whose wealth and children give them no increase but only Loss.

Nuh  21    

وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًۭا كُبَّارًۭا

Wamakaroo makran kubbaran

And they conspired an immense conspiracy.

"And they have devised a tremendous Plot.

Nuh  22    

وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّۭا وَلَا سُوَاعًۭا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًۭا

Waqaloo la tatharunna alihatakum wala tatharunna waddan wala suwaAAan wala yaghootha wayaAAooqa wanasran

And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.

"And they have said (to each other), 'Abandon not your gods: Abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', neither Yaguth nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr';-

Nuh  23    

وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِيرًۭا ۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلًۭا

Waqad adalloo katheeran wala tazidi alththalimeena illa dalalan

And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

"They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong-doers but in straying (from their mark)."

Nuh  24    

مِّمَّا خَطِيٓـَٔـٰتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا۟ فَأُدْخِلُوا۟ نَارًۭا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارًۭا

Mimma khateeatihim oghriqoo faodkhiloo naran falam yajidoo lahum min dooni Allahi ansaran

Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.

Because of their sins they were drowned (in the flood), and were made to enter the Fire (of Punishment): and they found- in lieu of Allah- none to help them.

Nuh  25    

وَقَالَ نُوحٌۭ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ دَيَّارًا

Waqala noohun rabbi la tathar AAala alardi mina alkafireena dayyaran

And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.

And Noah, said: "O my Lord! Leave not of the Unbelievers, a single one on earth!

Nuh  26    

إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرًۭا كَفَّارًۭا

Innaka in tatharhum yudilloo AAibadaka wala yalidoo illa fajiran kaffaran

Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.

"For, if Thou dost leave (any of) them, they will but mislead Thy devotees, and they will breed none but wicked ungrateful ones.

Nuh  27    

رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِىَ مُؤْمِنًۭا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًۢا

Rabbi ighfir lee waliwalidayya waliman dakhala baytiya muminan walilmumineena waalmuminati wala tazidi alththalimeena illa tabaran

My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."

"O my Lord! Forgive me, my parents, all who enter my house in Faith, and (all) believing men and believing women: and to the wrong-doers grant Thou no increase but in perdition!"

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