Nuh
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إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
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1. Indeed, I sent Noah to his people, inviting them so that he may warn them before a painful punishment afflicts them due to their state of ascribing partners to Allah.
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predicate), meaning: the Day of Resurrection. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [71:1] Verily We sent Noah to his people [saying]: ‘Warn your people before there come on them — should they not believe — a painful chastisement’, in this world and in the Hereafter. [71:2] He said, ‘O my people, I am indeed a plain Warner to you, one whose warning is plain, [ 7 1 : 3 ] [to tell you] that [you should] worship God and fear Him and obey me,
Open in library →قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ إِنِّي لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
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2. Noah said to his people, “O my people! Indeed, I am a clear warner for you of the punishment of Allah that awaits you if you do not repent to Him.”
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أَنِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَاتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ
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3. “And the gist of my warning to you is: “Worship Allah alone and do not ascribe any partners to Him; be mindful of Him by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, and obey me in whatever I instruct you to do.”
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يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى إِنَّ أَجَلَ اللَّهِ إِذَا جَاءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
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4. “Indeed, if you do that, Allah will forgive your sins for you in relation to other than violating the rights of the people. He will also prolong the lifespan of your nations until a time fixed according to His knowledge, wherein you shall populate the earth as long as you remain steadfast on it. Indeed, when death comes, it does not delay. If you truly knew, you would hasten to bringing faith in Allah and repenting to Him from your states of ascribing partners to Him and of deviance.”
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warning is plain, [ 7 1 : 3 ] [to tell you] that [you should] worship God and fear Him and obey me, [71:4] that He may forgive you some of your sins (min dhunubikum, ‘some of your sins’: min may be taken as extra, because submission to God ( islam ) expunges everything [of sin that was committed] pre¬ vious to it; or it [min] may be understood as partitive, to point out that which is due to [those who were already God’s] servants) and defer you, without chastising [you], until an appointed term, the term for death.…
Open in library →قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِي لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا
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5. Noah said, “O my Lord! Indeed, I called my people to Your worship and oneness, continuously, day and night.”
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فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَائِي إِلَّا فِرَارًا
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6. “But my calling them only increased them in alienation and distanced them from what I called them towards.”
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Lord, I have summoned my people night and day, that is to say, continuously with¬ out interruption, [71:6] but my summon has only increased their evasion, of faith. [71:7] And indeed whenever I summoned them, so that You might forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, in order not to hear what I say, and draw their cloaks over themselves, they cover their heads with them in order not to catch sight of me, and they persist, in their disbelief, and ad in great arrogance, disdaining faith. [71:8] Then indeed I summoned them aloud, that is to say, at the top of my voice; [71:9] th…
Open in library →وَإِنِّي كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوا أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَاسْتَغْشَوْا ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا اسْتِكْبَارًا
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7. “And whenever I called them towards that which meant forgiveness for their sins, i.e. worshipping You alone, obedience to You and Your Messenger, they blocked their ears with their fingers so that they could not hear my call. They also covered their faces with their clothes so that they could not see me, and they continued in their ascribing partners to you, showing arrogance in not accepting my call to them or submitting to it.”
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ثُمَّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا
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8. “O my Lord! I then invited them publicly.”
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ثُمَّ إِنِّي أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا
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9. “I invited them raising my voice, and I also invited them privately in a hushed tone. I used different methods of calling them.”
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فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا
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10. Then I said to them, “O my people! Seek the forgiveness of your Lord by turning to Him. Indeed, He, may He be glorified, is the oft-Forgiving of the sins of whichever of His servants repents to Him.”
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tly, [71:10] saying, “Ask your Lord for forgiveness, from idolatry. Assuredly He is ever Forgiving. [71:11] He will release the heaven, the rain — for they had been deprived of it — for you in torrents, in plenteous showers, [71:12] and furnish you with wealth and sons, and assign to you gardens, orchards, and assign to you, running, rivers. [71:13] What is wrongwithyou that you do not hope for dignity from God, that is to say, [that] you [do not] hope that God will dignify you by becoming believers,
Open in library →يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا
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11. “Because if you do that, Allah will send down frequent rainfall for you, whenever you need it, so you will never face a drought.”
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وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَارًا
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12. “And He will grant you an abundance of wealth and offspring, make gardens grow for you from which you can consume fruits, and make rivers flow from which you can drink and irrigate your crops and livestock.”
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مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا
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13. “O my people! What is wrong with you that you do not fear the greatness of Allah, such that you disobey Him without any care?!”
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وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا
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14. “While He created you in stages, one after the other: a drop of semen, then clotted blood, then a piece of flesh.”
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from God, that is to say, [that] you [do not] hope that God will dignify you by becoming believers, [71:14] when verily He created you in Stages? (atwar is the plural of tier, which means a State). Thus the SJierm-drop is one State, the blood clot is another State, and so on, until the creation of the human being is complete: reflecting on [the manner of] his creation necessarily leads to belief in his Creator. [71:15] Have you not seen how God created seven heavens in layers, one on top of the other, [71:16] and made the moon therein — that is to say, within their totality, [but] which i…
Open in library →أَلَمْ تَرَوْا كَيْفَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا
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15. “Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens, one on top of the other?”
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وَجَعَلَ الْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا
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16. “And He made the moon a light for the people of the earth, in the nearest of the heavens, also making the sun illuminating.”
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وَاللَّهُ أَنبَتَكُم مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا
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17. “And Allah is the one who created you from the earth, by creating your father Adam from soil. Then, you are also nourished by whatever it grows for you.”
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and made the sun as a lamp?, as an illuminating lantern, more powerful than the light of the moon. [71:17] And God has caused you to grow. He has created you, from the earth, for He created your father Adam from it. [71:18] Then He will make you return into it, entombed [in your graves], and bring you forth, for the resurrection, [with a veritable bringing forth]. [71:19] And God has made the earth a flat [open] expanse for you, [71:20] so that you may follow throughout it spacious routes.”’
Open in library →ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا
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18. “Allah will then return you to it after your death, and then take you out of it again for the resurrection.”
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وَاللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا
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19. “And Allah also spread the earth out for you, ready for you to live on.”
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لِّتَسْلُكُوا مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا
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20. “Perhaps you may create wide paths from it, striving to make permissible earnings.”
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arth a flat [open] expanse for you, [71:20] so that you may follow throughout it spacious routes.”’ [71:21] Noah said, ‘My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed, that is, the riffraff and the paupers [among them have followed], those whose wealth and children, namely, their leaders who have been blessed with such things (read wulduhu or waladuhu, ‘whose children, the firSt of which is said to be the plural of walad, similar [in pattern] to khasab, khushb, or in faCt [it is said to be] of the same meaning [as walad, but an alternative form] as in the case of bukhl or bakhal, ‘niggardli…
Open in library →قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِي وَاتَّبَعُوا مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُ وَوَلَدُهُ إِلَّا خَسَارًا
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21. Noah said, “O my Lord! Indeed, my people have disobeyed me in what I have instructed them to do i.e. accepting Your oneness and worshipping You alone. The lowly among them have followed the nobles, whom You have favoured with wealth and offspring. Your favouring them has only increased them in their deviance.”
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وَمَكَرُوا مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا
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22. The elders among them hatched a great plot by inciting the lowly against Noah.
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e of bukhl or bakhal, ‘niggardliness’), only add to their loss, [to] their insolence and disbelief. [71:22] And they have devised, namely, the leaders, a mighty plot, extremely outrageous, by denying Noah and harming him as well as his followers, [71:23] and have said, to the riffraff: “Do not abandon your gods, and do not abandon Wadd (read Wadd or Wudd ) nor Suwa c , nor Yaghuth and Ya c uq and Nasr” — these being the names of their idols.
Open in library →وَقَالُوا لَا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا
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23. They said to their followers, “Do not leave the worship of your deities: do not leave the worship of your idols Wadd, Suwā‘, Yaghūth and Nasr.”
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وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا كَثِيرًا وَلَا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَالًا
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24. “Verily, they have led the majority of people astray with these idols. O my Lord! Do not increase those who wrong themselves by persisting on disbelief and sins, except in further deviance from the truth.”
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add or Wudd ) nor Suwa c , nor Yaghuth and Ya c uq and Nasr” — these being the names of their idols. [71:24] And they have certainly led aftray, by these [gods], many, people, by commanding them to worship them. And do not [O God] increase the evildoers except in error!’ ( wa-ld tazidi’l-zalimina ilia dalalan is a supplement to qad adallu, ‘they have certainly led astray’): He [Noah] invoked God against them when it was revealed to him that, ‘None of your people will believe except he who has already be¬ lieved’ [Q. 11:36].
Open in library →مِّمَّا خَطِيئَاتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا فَأُدْخِلُوا نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا لَهُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَنصَارًا
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25. Due to the sins they committed, they were drowned by a flood in the world, and they were made to enter the hellfire immediately after their death. They did not find any helpers to save them from drowning or the hellfire.
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ed to him that, ‘None of your people will believe except he who has already be¬ lieved’ [Q. 11:36]. [71:25] Because of(mimma: ma indicates a relative clause) their iniquities (khataydhum: a variant read¬ ing has khati’atihim ) they were drowned, by the Flood, then made to enter the Fire, with which they were punished underwater after drowning.…
Open in library →وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ دَيَّارًا
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26. And when Allah informed him that no one will ever bring faith from his people, except those had already brought faith, Noah said, “O my Lord! Do not leave any disbeliever walking or moving on earth.”
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إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوا إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا
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27. “O my Lord! If you leave them and give them respite, they will lead your believing servants astray and will only give birth to more transgressors who will not obey You, or extreme ungrateful ones who will not show gratitude for Your favours.”
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eller upon the earth (dayyar means ‘one who inhabits a dwelling [ dar ]’), in other words, not one. [71:27] Assuredly if You leave them, they will lead Your servants ailray, and will beget only disbeliev¬ ing profligates (fajir and kaffar derive [respectively] from yafjuru and yakfuru): he said this on account of the mentioned revelation that had been given to him.…
Open in library →رَّبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًا
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28. “O my Lord! Forgive my sins, forgive my parents, and forgive the one who enters my house as a believer. Also forgive the believing men and women, and do not increase those who wrong themselves by disbelief and sins except in destruction and loss.”
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