بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ bismillāhir raḥmānir raḥīm In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful.
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إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ innā arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihi an andhir qawmaka min qabli an ya-tiyahum `adhābun alīm SENT NOAH to his people to warn them before the painful punishment came upon them.
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قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ qāla yāqawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīn He said: "O my people, I warn you clearly
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أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ ani'-budullāha wattaqūhu wa-aṭī`ūn That you should worship God and fear Him, and follow me
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يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَآءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ ۖ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wayu-akhhirkum ilā ajalin musammā ۚ inna ajalallāhi idhā jā-a lā yu-akhhar ۖ law kuntum ta`lamūn That He may forgive some of your sins and prolong your term till an appointed time. Surely when God's appointed time is come it will not be put off, if only you knew!
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قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا qāla rabbi innī da`awtu qawmī laylan wanahārā He said: "O Lord, I called my people night and day,
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فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًا falam yazid-hum du`ā-ī illā firārā But the more I called, they only ran the farther away.
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وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًا wa innī kullamā da`awtuhum litaghfira lahum ja`alū aṣābi`ahum fī ādhānihim wastaghshaw thiyābahum wa-aṣarrū wastakbarus-tikbārā And every time I called them that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and covered themselves with their garments, and became wayward, and behaved with downright insolence.
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ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا thumma innī da`awtuhum jihārā Then I called them loudly and more openly,
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ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا thumma innī a`lantu lahum wa-asrartu lahum isrārā And declared to them in public and in private,
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فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا faqultus taghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffārā And I told them: 'Ask your Lord to forgive you. He is verily forgiving.
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يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا yursilis samā-a `alaykum midrārā He will send you abundant rain from the sky,
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وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَـٰرًا wayumdidkum bi-amwālin wabanīna wayaj`al lakum jannātin wayaj`al lakum anhārā And will give you increase of wealth and sons, and give you gardens and springs of water.
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مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا mā lakum lā tarjūna lillāhi waqārā What has come upon you that you do not fear the majesty of God,
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وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا waqad khalaqakum aṭwārā Knowing that He has created you by various stages?
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أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَـٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا alam taraw kayfa khalaqallāhu sab`a samāwātin ṭibāqā Do you not see how God has fashioned seven skies one above the other,
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وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا waja`alal-qamara fīhinna nūran waja`alash shamsa sirājā And has placed the moon therein, an illumination, and has placed the sun, a lighted lamp?
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وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا wallāhu anbatakum minal-arḍi nabātā God produced you from the earth like a vegetable growth;
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ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا thumma yu`īdukum fīhā wayukhrijukum ikhrājā He will then return you back to it, and bring you out again.
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وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا wallāhu ja`ala lakumul-arḍa bisāṭā God has made the earth for you a spreading,
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لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا litaslukū minhā subulan fijājā So that you may walk upon its spacious paths.'
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قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًا qāla nūḥun rabbi innahum `aṣawnī wattaba`ū man lam yazid-hu māluhu wawaladuhu illā khasārā But they did not listen to me," Noah said, "and followed him whose wealth and children only added to his ruin.
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وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا wa makarū makran kubbārā And they contrived a plot of great magnitude,
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وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا waqālū lā tadharunna ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddan walā suwā`an walā yaghūtha waya`ūqa wanasrā And said: 'Do not abandon your gods, and do not abandon Wadda or Suwa', or Yaghuth, Ya'uq or Nasr.'
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وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِيرًا ۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلًا waqad aḍallū kathīrā ۖ walā tazidiẓ ẓālimīna illā ḍalālā And they misled many. So do not give the evil-doers increase but in error.
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مِّمَّا خَطِيٓـَٔـٰتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا۟ فَأُدْخِلُوا۟ نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارًا mimmā khaṭī-ātihim ughriqū fa-udkhilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūnillāhi anṣārā They were drowned because of their habitual sinfulness, and sent to Hell, and did not find any helper other than God.
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وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ دَيَّارًا waqāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar `alal-arḍi minal kāfirīna dayyārā Noah said: "O Lord, do not leave a single habitation of unbelievers on the earth.
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إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū `ibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffārā If you leave them, they will lead Your creatures astray, and beget but iniquitous and ungrateful offspring.
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رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِىَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًۢا rabbigh-fir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya mu-minan walil-mu-minīna wal mu-mināti walā tazidiẓ ẓālimīna illā tabārā O Lord, forgive me, my parents, and any one who enters my house as a believer, and all believing men and women, and do not give the evil-doers increase save in ruin.
