71. Nooh

71:1

إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ﴿١﴾

Innā arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihi an andhir qawmaka min qabli an yaʾtiyahum ʿadhābun alīm

Lo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them.

71:2

قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ ﴿٢﴾

Qāla yā qawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīn

He said: O my people! Lo! I am a plain warner unto you

71:3

أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ ﴿٣﴾

Ani uʿbudū Allāha wāttaqūhu waʾaṭīʿūn

(Bidding you): Serve Allah and keep your duty unto Him and obey me,

71:4

يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَآءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ ۖ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٤﴾

Yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wayuʾakhkhirkum ilā ajalin musamman inna ajala Allāhi idhā jāʾa lā yuʾakhkharu law kuntum taʿlamūn

That He may forgive you somewhat of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Lo! the term of Allah, when it cometh, cannot be delayed, if ye but knew.

71:5

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا ﴿٥﴾

Qāla rabbi innī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wanahārā

He said: My Lord! Lo! I have called unto my people night and day

71:6

فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًا ﴿٦﴾

Falam yazidhum duʿāʾī illā firārā

But all my calling doth but add to their repugnance;

71:7

وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًا ﴿٧﴾

Waʾinnī kullamā daʿawtuhum litaghfira lahum jaʿalū aṣābiʿahum fī ādhānihim wāstaghshaw thiyābahum waʾaṣarrū wāstakbarū istikbārā

And lo! whenever I call unto them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments and persist (in their refusal) and magnify themselves in pride.

71:8

ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا ﴿٨﴾

Thumma innī daʿawtuhum jihārā

And lo! I have called unto them aloud,

71:9

ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا ﴿٩﴾

Thumma innī aʿlantu lahum waʾasrartu lahum isrārā

And lo! I have made public proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private.

71:10

فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا ﴿١٠﴾

Faqultu istaghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffārā

And I have said: Seek pardon of your Lord. Lo! He was ever Forgiving.

71:11

يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا ﴿١١﴾

Yursili as-samāʾa ʿalaykum midrārā

He will let loose the sky for you in plenteous rain,

71:12

وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَـٰرًا ﴿١٢﴾

Wayumdidkum biʾamwālin wabanīna wayajʿal lakum jannātin wayajʿal lakum anhārā

And will help you with wealth and sons, and will assign unto you Gardens and will assign unto you rivers.

71:13

مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا ﴿١٣﴾

Mā lakum lā tarjūna lillāhi waqārā

What aileth you that ye hope not toward Allah for dignity

71:14

وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا ﴿١٤﴾

Waqad khalaqakum aṭwārā

When He created you by (divers) stages?

71:15

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَـٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا ﴿١٥﴾

Alam taraw kayfa khalaqa Allāhu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqā

See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,

71:16

وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا ﴿١٦﴾

Wajaʿala al-qamara fīhinna nūran wajaʿala ash-shamsa sirājā

And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?

71:17

وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا ﴿١٧﴾

Wallāhu anbatakum mina al-arḍi nabātā

And Allah hath caused you to grow as a growth from the earth,

71:18

ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا ﴿١٨﴾

Thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukhrijukum ikhrājā

And afterward He maketh you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing.

71:19

وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا ﴿١٩﴾

Wallāhu jaʿala lakumu al-arḍa bisāṭā

And Allah hath made the earth a wide expanse for you

71:20

لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا ﴿٢٠﴾

Litaslukū minhā subulan fijājā

That ye may thread the valley-ways thereof.

71:21

قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًا ﴿٢١﴾

Qāla nūḥun rabbi innahum ʿaṣawnī wāttabaʿū man lam yazidhu māluhu wawaladuhu illā khasārā

Noah said: My Lord! Lo! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught save ruin;

71:22

وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا ﴿٢٢﴾

Wamakarū makran kubbārā

And they have plotted a mighty plot,

71:23

وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا ﴿٢٣﴾

Waqālū lā tadharunna ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddan walā suwāʿan walā yaghūtha wayaʿūqa wanasrā

And they have said: Forsake not your gods. Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.

71:24

وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِيرًا ۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلًا ﴿٢٤﴾

Waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi aẓ-ẓālimīna illā ḍalālā

And they have led many astray, and Thou increasest the wrong-doers in naught save error.

71:25

مِّمَّا خَطِيٓـَٔـٰتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا۟ فَأُدْخِلُوا۟ نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارًا ﴿٢٥﴾

Mimmā khaṭīʾātihim ughriqū faʾudkhilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūni Allāhi anṣārā

Because of their sins they were drowned, then made to enter a Fire. And they found they had no helpers in place of Allah.

71:26

وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ دَيَّارًا ﴿٢٦﴾

Waqāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā al-arḍi mina al-kāfirīna dayyārā

And Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers in the land.

71:27

إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا ﴿٢٧﴾

Innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffārā

If Thou shouldst leave them, they will mislead Thy slaves and will beget none save lewd ingrates.

71:28

رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِىَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًۢا ﴿٢٨﴾

Rabbi ighfir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya muʾminan walilmuʾminīna wal-muʾmināti walā tazidi aẓ-ẓālimīna illā tabārā

My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and him who entereth my house believing, and believing men and believing women, and increase not the wrong-doers in aught save ruin.