M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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BEHOLD. We sent Noah unto his people. (saying:) "Warn thy people ere grievous suffering befall them!

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(And Noah) said: "O my people! I am but a plain warner to you, (sent to tell you)

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that you should worship God (alone) and be conscious of Him. "Now do pay heed unto me,

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so that He may forgive you some of your sins, and grant you respite until a term known (to Him alone): but, behold, when the term appointed by God does come, it can never be put back - if you but knew it!"

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(And after a time, Noah) said: "O my Sustainer! Verily, I have been calling unto my people night and day

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but my call has only caused them to flee farther and farther away (from Thee).

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And behold, whenever I called unto them with a view to Thy granting them forgiveness, they put their fingers into their ears, and wrapped themselves up in their garments (of sin); and grew obstinate, and became (yet more) arrogant in their false pride.

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And behold I called unto them openly;

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and, behold I preached to them in public; and I spoke to them secretly, in private;

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and I said: "'Ask your Sustainer to forgive you your sins - for, verily, He is all-forgiving!

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He will shower upon you heavenly blessings abundant,

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and will aid you with worldly goods and children, and will bestow upon you gardens, and bestow upon you running waters.

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'What is amiss with you that you cannot look forward to God's majesty,

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seeing that He has created (every one of) you in successive stages?

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'Do you not see how God has created seven heavens in full harmony with one another,

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and has set up within them the moon as a light (reflected) and set up the sun as a (radiant) lamp?

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'And God has caused you to grow out of the earth in (gradual) growth; and thereafter He will return you to it (in death):

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and (then) He will bring you forth (from It) in resurrection.

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'And God has made the earth a wide expanse for you,

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so that you might walk thereon on spacious paths.’"

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(And) Noah continued: "O my Sustainer! Behold, they have opposed me (throughout), for they follow people whose wealth and children lead them increasingly into ruin,

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and who have devised a most awesome blasphemy (against Thee),

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inasmuch as they said (to their followers), 'Do not ever abandon your gods: abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', and neither Yaghuth nor Ya’uq nor Nasr!'

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And so they have led many a one astray: hence, ordain Thou that these evildoers stray but farther and farther away (from all that they may desire)!

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And so, because of their sins, they were drowned (in the great flood), and were doomed to suffer the fire (of the hereafter); and they found none who could succour them against God.

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And Noah prayed: "O my Sustainer! Leave not on earth any of those who deny the truth:

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for, behold, If Thou dost leave them, they will (always try to) lead astray those who worship Thee, and will give birth to nothing but wickedness and stubborn ingratitude.

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O my Sustainer! Grant Thy forgiveness unto me and unto my parents, and unto everyone who enters my house as a believer, and unto all believing men and believing women (of later times); and grant Thou that the doers of evil shall increasingly meet with destruction!'

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