Nooh

We sent Noah to his people: ‘Warn your people, before a painful punishment comes to them.’

إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ أَنْ أَنْذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

innā arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihi an andhir qawmaka min qabli an yatiyahum ʿadhābun alīmun

And so he said, ‘My people, I am here to warn you plainly.

قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ إِنِّي لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُبِينٌ

qāla yāqawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīnun

Serve God, be mindful of Him and obey me.

أَنِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَاتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ

ani uʿ'budū l-laha wa-ittaqūhu wa-aṭīʿūni

He will forgive you your sins and spare you until your appointed time––when God’s appointed time arrives it cannot be postponed. If only you understood!’

يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ مِنْ ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ اللَّهِ إِذَا جَاءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ ۖ لَوْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wayu-akhir'kum ilā ajalin musamman inna ajala l-lahi idhā jāa lā yu-akharu law kuntum taʿlamūna

He said, ‘My Lord, I have called my people night and day,

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِي لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا

qāla rabbi innī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wanahāran

but the more I call them, the further they run away:

فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَائِي إِلَّا فِرَارًا

falam yazid'hum duʿāī illā firāran

every time I call them, so that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, cover their heads with their garments, persist in their rejection, and grow more insolent and arrogant.

وَإِنِّي كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوا أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَاسْتَغْشَوْا ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا اسْتِكْبَارًا

wa-innī kullamā daʿawtuhum litaghfira lahum jaʿalū aṣābiʿahum fī ādhānihim wa-is'taghshaw thiyābahum wa-aṣarrū wa-is'takbarū is'tik'bāran

I have tried calling them openly.

ثُمَّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا

thumma innī daʿawtuhum jihāran

I have tried preaching to them in public and speaking to them in private.

ثُمَّ إِنِّي أَعْلَنْتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا

thumma innī aʿlantu lahum wa-asrartu lahum is'rāran

I said, “Ask forgiveness of your Lord: He is ever forgiving.

فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا

faqul'tu is'taghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffāran

He will send down abundant rain from the sky for you;

يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا

yur'sili l-samāa ʿalaykum mid'rāran

He will give you wealth and sons; He will provide you with gardens and rivers.

وَيُمْدِدْكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ وَيَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ أَنْهَارًا

wayum'did'kum bi-amwālin wabanīna wayajʿal lakum jannātin wayajʿal lakum anhāran

What is the matter with you? Why will you not fear God’s majesty,

مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا

mā lakum lā tarjūna lillahi waqāran

when He has created you stage by stage?

وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا

waqad khalaqakum aṭwāran

Have you ever wondered how God created seven heavens, one above the other,

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا كَيْفَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا

alam taraw kayfa khalaqa l-lahu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqan

placed the moon as a light in them and the sun as a lamp,

وَجَعَلَ الْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا

wajaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wajaʿala l-shamsa sirājan

how God made you spring forth from the earth like a plant,

وَاللَّهُ أَنْبَتَكُمْ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا

wal-lahu anbatakum mina l-arḍi nabātan

how He will return you into it and then bring you out again,

ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا

thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukh'rijukum ikh'rājan

and how He has spread the Earth out for you

وَاللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا

wal-lahu jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa bisāṭan

to walk along its spacious paths?” ’

لِتَسْلُكُوا مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا

litaslukū min'hā subulan fijājan

Noah said, ‘My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those whose riches and children only increase their ruin;

قَالَ نُوحٌ رَبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِي وَاتَّبَعُوا مَنْ لَمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُ وَوَلَدُهُ إِلَّا خَسَارًا

qāla nūḥun rabbi innahum ʿaṣawnī wa-ittabaʿū man lam yazid'hu māluhu wawaladuhu illā khasāran

who have made a grand plan,

وَمَكَرُوا مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا

wamakarū makran kubbāran

saying, “Do not renounce your gods! Do not renounce Wadd, Suwa, Yaghuth, Yauq, or Nasr!”

وَقَالُوا لَا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا

waqālū lā tadharunna ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddan walā suwāʿan walā yaghūtha wayaʿūqa wanasran

They have led many astray. Lord, bring nothing but destruction down on the evildoers!’

وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا كَثِيرًا ۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَالًا

waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalālan

They were drowned and sent to Hell for their evildoings: they found no one to help them against God.

مِمَّا خَطِيئَاتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا فَأُدْخِلُوا نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ أَنْصَارًا

mimmā khaṭīātihim ugh'riqū fa-ud'khilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūni l-lahi anṣāran

And Noah said, ‘Lord, do not leave any of the disbelievers on the earth-

وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ دَيَّارًا

waqāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā l-arḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyāran

if you leave them they will lead Your servants astray and beget only sinners and disbelievers-

إِنَّكَ إِنْ تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوا إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا

innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffāran

Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer. Forgive believing men and women but bring nothing but ruin down on the evildoers!’

رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِمَنْ دَخَلَ بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًا

rabbi igh'fir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya mu'minan walil'mu'minīna wal-mu'mināti walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā tabāran