The Qur'an · Pickthall Translation

71. Nuh

Pickthall translation · 28 verses

Surah Nuh (71) of the Holy Qur'an, in the respected public domain Pickthall translation. It opens: “Lo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them” — the complete text of all 28 verses is below, free to read online, no account needed.

1Lo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them

2He said: O my people! Lo! I am a plain warner unto you

3(Bidding you): Serve Allah and keep your duty unto Him and obey me

4That He may forgive you somewhat of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Lo! the term of Allah, when it cometh, cannot be delayed, if ye but knew

5He said: My Lord! Lo! I have called unto my people night and day

6But all my calling doth but add to their repugnance

7And lo! whenever I call unto them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments and persist (in their refusal) and magnify themselves in pride

8And lo! I have called unto them aloud

9And lo! I have made public proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private

10And I have said: Seek pardon of your Lord. Lo! He was ever Forgiving

11He will let loose the sky for you in plenteous rain

12And will help you with wealth and sons, and will assign unto you Gardens and will assign unto you rivers

13What aileth you that ye hope not toward Allah for dignity

14When He created you by (divers) stages

15See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony

16And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp

17And Allah hath caused you to grow as a growth from the earth

18And afterward He maketh you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing

19And Allah hath made the earth a wide expanse for you

20That ye may thread the valley-ways thereof

21Noah said: My Lord! Lo! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught save ruin

22And they have plotted a mighty plot

23And they have said: Forsake not your gods. Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr

24And they have led many astray, and Thou increasest the wrong-doers in naught save error

25Because of their sins they were drowned, then made to enter a Fire. And they found they had no helpers in place of Allah

26And Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers in the land

27If Thou shouldst leave them, they will mislead Thy slaves and will beget none save lewd ingrates

28My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and him who entereth my house believing, and believing men and believing women, and increase not the wrong-doers in aught save ruin

28 verses · Pickthall translation (public domain)

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