Noah

In the name of GOD, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīm

We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them."

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

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

He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you.

قَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ

qāla yāqawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīnu

"To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me.

أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ

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

"He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew."

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

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

He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day.

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا

qāla rabbi innī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wanahāra

"But my invitation only increased their aversion.

فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًا

falam yazid'hum duʿāī illā firāra

"Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant.

وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًا

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

"Then I invited them publicly.

ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا

thumma innī daʿawtuhum jihāra

"Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately.

ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا

thumma innī aʿlantu lahum wa-asrartu lahum is'rāra

"I said, 'Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving.

فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا

faqul'tu is'taghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffāra

"'He will then shower you generously with rain.

يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا

yur'sili l-samāa ʿalaykum mid'rāra

" 'And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.' "

وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَٰرًا

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

Why should you not strive to reverence GOD?

مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا

mā lakum lā tarjūna lillahi waqāra

He is the One who created you in stages.

وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا

waqad khalaqakum aṭwāra

Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers?

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا

alam taraw kayfa khalaqa l-lahu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqa

He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp.

وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا

wajaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wajaʿala l-shamsa sirāja

And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants.

وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا

wal-lahu anbatakum mina l-arḍi nabāta

Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out.

ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا

thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukh'rijukum ikh'rāja

GOD made the earth habitable for you.

وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا

wal-lahu jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa bisāṭa

That you may build roads therein.

لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا

litaslukū min'hā subulan fijāja

Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children.

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

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

"They schemed terrible schemes.

وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا

wamakarū makran kubbāra

"They said, 'Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa', Yaghouth, Ya'ooq, and Nasr.'

وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا

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

"They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss."

وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِيرًا وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَٰلًا

waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalāla

Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD.

مِّمَّا خَطِيٓـَٰٔتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا۟ فَأُدْخِلُوا۟ نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارًا

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

Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth.

وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنَ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ دَيَّارًا

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

"For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers.

إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا

innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffāra

"My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation."

رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِىَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًۢا

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