The Qur'an Sura LXXI — NOAH
1We sent NOAH to his people, and said to him, "Warn thou thy people ere there come on them an afflictive punishment."
2He said, "O my people! I come to you a plain-spoken warner:
3Serve God and fear Him, and obey me:
4Your sins will He forgive you, and respite you till the fixed Time; for when God's fixed Time hath come, it shall not be put back. Would that ye knew this!"
5He said, "Lord I have cried to my people night and day; and my cry doth but make them flee from me the more.
6So oft as I cry to them, that thou mayest forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrap themselves in their garments, and persist in their error, and are disdainfully disdainful.
7Then I cried aloud to them:
8Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address them:
9And I said, Beg forgiveness of your Lord, for He is ready to forgive.
10He will send down the very Heaven upon you in plenteous rains;
11And will increase you in wealth and children; and will give you gardens, and will give you watercourses:–
12What hath come to you that ye hope not for goodness from the hand of God?
13For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps.
14See ye not how God hath created the seven heavens one over the other?
15And He hath placed therein the moon as a light, and hath placed there the sun as a torch;
16And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant;
17Hereafter will He turn you back into it again, and will bring you forth anew–
18And God hath spread the earth for you like a carpet,
19That ye may walk therein along spacious paths."'
20Said Noah, "O my Lord! they rebel against me, and they follow those whose riches and children do but aggravate their ruin."
21And they plotted a great plot;
22And they said, "Forsake not your Gods; forsake not Wadd nor Sowah,
23Nor Yaghuth and Yahuk and Nesr;"
24And they caused many to err;–and thou, too, O Muhammad! shalt be the means of increasing only error in the wicked–
25Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire;
26And they found that they had no helper save God.
27And Noah said, "Lord, leave not one single family of Infidels on the Earth:
28For if thou leave them they will beguile thy servants and will beget only sinners, infidels.
29O my Lord, forgive me, and my parents, and every one who, being a believer, shall enter my house, and believers men and women: and add to the wicked nought but perdition."
Suras are in the standard order; verse divisions follow Rodwell's 1861 edition and do not always match the standard ayah numbering.