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We sent Noah to his people: — Warn your people before they are overtaken by a painful punishment!
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Noah said: “O my people! I’m your lucid Warner.
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Serve God, fear Him, and obey me.
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Then He will forgive your sins and reprieve you for a definite term. Indeed, when God sets a time, it’s impossible to postpone it, if you [only] knew!”
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And he said: “O my Lord! I’ve been calling to my people night and day,
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but my call only increased their alienation.
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Each time I told them that You might forgive them, they stuck their fingers in their ears and wrapped themselves in garments. They were stubborn and full of haughty arrogance.
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I called to them aloud,
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I talked to them in gatherings and in secret.
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I kept telling them: ‘Beg your Lord’s forgiveness — indeed, He’s all-forgiving.
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He’ll make abundant rain fall upon you from the sky.
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He’ll multiply your wealth and your sons. He’ll give you gardens, He’ll give you rivers.
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So what’s the matter with you that you don’t trust the greatness of God?
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He has created you in stages.
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Don’t you see that God has created the sky in seven layers,
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and set up in it the moon as a light and the sun as a lamp?
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God has made you grow from the earth like plants.
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Later He’ll return you into it and resurrect you in a [great] resurrection.
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God has spread the earth for you like a rug
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to let you travel on its wide roads.’”
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Noah said: “O my Lord! They’ve disobeyed me and followed those whose wealth and children only increase their loss.
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They plotted a huge plot
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saying: ’Don’t abandon your gods. Don’t abandon Wadd, Suawa’, Yaguth, Ya’uk, and Nasr.’
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They’ve seduced many [people] in this way, so don’t increase the wrong-doers in anything, but error.”
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They were drowned for their sins and led into the Fire — nobody could have helped them, except God!
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Noah said: “O my Lord! Don’t spare a single disbelieving dweller on earth.
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Indeed, if You spare them, they’ll seduce Your servants and breed only wicked disbelievers.
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O my Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and every believer who enters my house, and all the believing men and women. And don’t increase the sinners in anything, but perdition!”