71. NUH
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In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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1.
We had sent Nuh to his people, (saying), “Warn your people before a
painful punishment comes on them.”
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He said, “O my people ! I am a clear warner to you:
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that you should serve (worship) Allah and fear Him and obey me,
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He will (for give and) protect you from your sins and give you time
till an appointed term. When the term of Allah comes (to an end), it
will certainly not be postponed, had you but known.”
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He said, “My Fosterer! I invited my people (towards You) night and day
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but my invitation did not increase in them anything except running away
(from the truth).
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And whenever I invited them that You will protectively forgive them,
they put their fingers in their ears and covered, themselves with garments
and persisted (in refusing) and considered themselves great (due to)
pride.
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Then I invited them aloud,
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then I invited them publicly and secretly in private,
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then I said: Seek protective forgiveness of your Fosterer, He is certainly
Protectively Forgiving,
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He will send on you abundant rain from the sky,
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and will help you with wealth and sons and He will make gardens for
you and He will make rivers for you.
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What is (wrong) with you, do you not expect Allah to be serious (about
the above promises)?
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And He has created you (through) different stages.
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15.
Did you not consider how Allah created the seven skies (higher levels)
in accordance with each other,
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and made the moon therein (a source of reflected) light and made the
sun a lamp?
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And Allah caused you to grow from the earth (as a) growth,
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then He returns you into it and He will bring you out, a bringing out.
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And Allah has made the earth a wide expanse for you,
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that you may move therein on wide ways.” (R 1)
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Nuh said, “My Fosterer, they disobeyed me, and followed him whose wealth
and children added to him nothing but loss.
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22.
And they planned a great plan.
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And they said: Do not leave your gods, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa nor
Yagus and Yauq and Nasr* *Names of false
gods (deities)
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And they have misled many, and You do not (give) increase to the unjust
persons in anything but error.”
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They were drowned because of their faults, then made to enter the fire,
and they did not find for themselves any helpers besides Allah.
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And Nuh said, “My Fosterer! do not leave on the earth any dweller from
among the infidels,
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for if you leave them they will mislead your servants and they will
not give birth to any but transgressing, ungrateful (children).
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28.
My Fosterer ! protectively forgive me and my parents and him who enters
my house as a believer, and the believing men and the believing women
and do not (give) increase to the unjust persons, in anything but ruin.”
(R 2, P 28 ˝ )
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