71:0 In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

71:1 We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them."

71:2 He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you.

71:3 "To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me.

71:4 "He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew."

71:5 He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day.

71:6 "But my invitation only increased their aversion.

71:7 "Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant.

71:8 "Then I invited them publicly.

71:9 "Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately.

71:10 "I said, `Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving.

71:11 " `He will then shower you generously with rain.

71:12 " `And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.' "

71:13 Why should you not strive to reverence GOD?

71:14 He is the One who created you in stages.

71:15 Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers?

71:16 He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp.

71:17 And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants.

71:18 Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out.

71:19 GOD made the earth habitable for you.

71:20 That you may build roads therein.

71:21 Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children.

71:22 "They schemed terrible schemes.

71:23 "They said, `Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa`, Yaghouth, Ya`ooq, and Nasr.'

71:24 "They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss."

71:25 Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD.

71:26 Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth.

71:27 "For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers.

71:28 "My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation."