1Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

2He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,

3[Saying], 'Worship Allāh, fear Him and obey me.

4He [i.e., Allāh] will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allāh, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.'"

5He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

6But my invitation increased them not except in flight [i.e., aversion].

7And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments,¹⁶³⁴ persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.

8Then I invited them publicly.

9Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly

10And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.

11He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers

12And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

13What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allāh [due] grandeur

14While He has created you in stages?¹⁶³⁵

15Do you not consider how Allāh has created seven heavens in layers¹⁶³⁶

16And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

17And Allāh has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

18Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

19And Allāh has made for you the earth an expanse

20That you may follow therein roads of passage.'"

21Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

22And they conspired an immense conspiracy

23And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwā' or Yaghūth and Ya'ūq and Nasr.'¹⁶³⁷

24And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

25Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allāh [any] helpers.

26And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.

27Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.

28My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."