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Chapter 71 (Sura 71)
1; SENT NOAH to his people to warn them before the painful punishment came upon them.
2; He said: “O my people, I warn you clearly
3; That you should worship God and fear Him, and follow me
4; That He may forgive some of your sins and prolong your term till an appointed time. Surely when God´s appointed time is come it will not be put off, if only you knew!
5; He said: “O Lord, I called my people night and day,
6; But the more I called, they only ran the farther away.
7; And every time I called them that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and covered themselves with their garments, and became wayward, and behaved with downright insolence.
8; Then I called them loudly and more openly,
9; And declared to them in public and in private,
10; And I told them: ´Ask your Lord to forgive you. He is verily forgiving.
11; He will send you abundant rain from the sky,
12; And will give you increase of wealth and sons, and give you gardens and springs of water.
13; What has come upon you that you do not fear the majesty of God,
14; Knowing that He has created you by various stages?
15; Do you not see how God has fashioned seven skies one above the other,
16; And has placed the moon therein, an illumination, and has placed the sun, a lighted lamp?
17; God produced you from the earth like a vegetable growth;
18; He will then return you back to it, and bring you out again.
19; God has made the earth for you a spreading,
20; So that you may walk upon its spacious paths.´
21; But they did not listen to me,” Noah said, “and followed him whose wealth and children only added to his ruin.
22; And they contrived a plot of great magnitude,
23; And said: ´Do not abandon your gods, and do not abandon Wadda or Suwa´, or Yaghuth, Ya´uq or Nasr.´
24; And they misled many. So do not give the evil-doers increase but in error.
25; They were drowned because of their habitual sinfulness, and sent to Hell, and did not find any helper other than God.
26; Noah said: “O Lord, do not leave a single habitation of unbelievers on the earth.
27; If you leave them, they will lead Your creatures astray, and beget but iniquitous and ungrateful offspring.
28; O Lord, forgive me, my parents, and any one who enters my house as a believer, and all believing men and women, and do not give the evil-doers increase save in ruin.