# Sura  71 - Noah

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> SURA LXXI (71) - Noah          (Mecca - 29 Verses)          (LI - 85)         
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        We sent Noah to his people, and said to him, "Warn thou thy people ere
> there come on them an afflictive punishment."
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>        He said, "O my people!  I come to you a plain-spoken warner:
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>        Sere God and fear Him, and obey me:
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>        Your 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!"
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>        He said, "Lord I have cried to my people night and day; and my cry doth
> but make them flee from me the more.
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>        So 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.
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>        Then I cried aloud to them:
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>        Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address
> them:
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>        And I said, 'Beg forgiveness of your Lord, for He is ready to forgive.
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> 71:10  He will send down the very Heaven upon you in plenteous rains;
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>        And will increase you in wealth and children; and will give you gardens,
> and will give you watercourses: -
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>        What hath come to you that ye hope not for goodness from the hand of
> God?
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>        For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps.
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>        See ye not how God hath created the seven heavens one over the other?
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>        And He hath placed therein the moon as a light, and hath placed there
> the sun as a torch;
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>        And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant;
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>        Hereafter will He turn you back into again, and will bring you forth
> anew -
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>        And God hath spread the earth for you like a carper,
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>        That ye may walk therein along spacious paths.'"
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> 71:20  Said Noah, "O my Lord! they rebel against me, and they follow those
> whose riches and children do but aggravate their ruin."
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>        And they plotted a great plot;
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>        And they said, "Forsake not your Gods; forsake not Wadd nor Sowah,
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>        Nor Yaghuth and Yahuk and Nesr;"
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>        And they caused many to err; - and thou, too, O Muhammad! shall be the
> means of increasing only error in the wicked -
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>        Because of their sins they were drowned, and made to go into the Fire;
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>        And they found that they had no helper save God.
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>        And Noah said, "Lord, leave not only single family of Infidels on the
> Earth:
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>        For if thou leave them they will beguile thy servants and will beget
> only sinners, infidels.
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>        O 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 by perdition."
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> — *Sura  71 - Noah*