﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><sura id="71">
  <aya id="1" text="Verily, We sent Nûh (Noah) to his people (Saying): &amp;quot;Warn your people before there comes to them a painful torment.&amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="2" text="He said: &amp;quot;O my people! Verily, I am a plain warner to you," />
  <aya id="3" text="&amp;quot;That you should worship Allâh (Alone), be dutiful to Him, and obey me," />
  <aya id="4" text="&amp;quot;He (Allâh) will forgive you of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Verily, the term of Allâh when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you but knew.&amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="5" text="He said: &amp;quot;O my Lord! Verily, I have called my people night and day (i.e. secretly and openly to accept the doctrine of Islâmic Monotheism) ," />
  <aya id="6" text="&amp;quot;But all my calling added nothing but to (their) flight (from the truth)." />
  <aya id="7" text="&amp;quot;And verily! Every time I called unto them that You might forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, and persisted (in their refusal), and magnified themselves in pride." />
  <aya id="8" text="&amp;quot;Then verily, I called to them openly (aloud);" />
  <aya id="9" text="&amp;quot;Then verily, I proclaimed to them in public, and I have appealed to them in private," />
  <aya id="10" text="&amp;quot;I said (to them): 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; Verily, He is Oft-Forgiving;" />
  <aya id="11" text="'He will send rain to you in abundance;" />
  <aya id="12" text="'And give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.' &amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="13" text="What is the matter with you, [that you fear not Allâh (His punishment), and] you hope not for reward (from Allâh or you believe not in His Oneness)." />
  <aya id="14" text="While He has created you in (different) stages [i.e. first &lt;I&gt;Nutfah&lt;/I&gt;, then &lt;I&gt;'Alaqah &lt;/I&gt;and then &lt;I&gt;Mudghah&lt;/I&gt;, see (VV.23:13,14) the Qur'ân]." />
  <aya id="15" text="See you not how Allâh has created the seven heavens one above another," />
  <aya id="16" text="And has made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?" />
  <aya id="17" text="And Allâh has brought you forth from the (dust of) earth. [&lt;I&gt;Tafsir At-Tabarî, &lt;/I&gt;Vol.29, Page 97]." />
  <aya id="18" text="Afterwards He will return you into it (the earth), and bring you forth (again on the Day of Resurrection)?" />
  <aya id="19" text="And Allâh has made for you the earth wide spread (an expanse)." />
  <aya id="20" text="That you may go about therein in broad roads." />
  <aya id="21" text="Nûh (Noah) said: &amp;quot;My Lord! They have disobeyed me, and followed one whose wealth and children give him no increase but only loss." />
  <aya id="22" text="&amp;quot;And they have plotted a mighty plot." />
  <aya id="23" text="&amp;quot;And they have said: 'You shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave &lt;I&gt;Wadd, &lt;/I&gt;nor &lt;I&gt;Suwâ', &lt;/I&gt;nor &lt;I&gt;Yaghûth, &lt;/I&gt;nor &lt;I&gt;Ya'ûq, &lt;/I&gt;nor &lt;I&gt;Nasr &lt;/I&gt;(names of the idols);" />
  <aya id="24" text="&amp;quot;And indeed they have led many astray. And (O Allâh): 'Grant no increase to the &lt;I&gt;Zâlimûn&lt;/I&gt; (polytheists, wrong-doers, and disbelievers, etc.) save error.' &amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="25" text="Because of their sins they were drowned, then were made to enter the Fire, and they found none to help them instead of Allâh." />
  <aya id="26" text="And Nûh (Noah) said: &amp;quot;My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers on the earth!" />
  <aya id="27" text="&amp;quot;If You leave them, they will mislead Your slaves, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers.&amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="28" text="&amp;quot;My Lord! Forgive me, and my parents, and him who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. And to the &lt;I&gt;Zâlimûn&lt;/I&gt; (polytheists, wrong-doers, and disbelievers, etc.) grant You no increase but destruction!&amp;quot;" />
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