CHAPTER 71.  NOAH                                                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE 
WITH THE COMMAND, WARN YOUR PEOPLE 
BEFORE THEY RECEIVE A PENALTY THAT WILL BE TERRIBLE

2  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 
I AM TO YOU AN APOSTLE 

3  THAT YOU SHOULD OBEY AND TO GOD BE GRATEFUL

4  SO HE MAY FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS
AND GIVE YOU RESPITE FOR A TERM PREDESTINED 
WHEN THE TERM COMES IT CANNOT BE LENGTHENED

5  OH MY LORD, I HAVE CALLED TO MY PEOPLE NIGHT AND DAY

6  MY CALL ONLY INCREASES THEIR FLIGHT FROM THE RIGHT WAY

7  AND EVERY TIME I HAVE CALLED TO THEM 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT FORGIVE THEM 

THEY HAVE PUT THEIR FINGERS
INTO THEIR EARS 

AND COVERED THEMSELVES UP WITH THEIR GARMENTS 
AND GROWN OBSTINATE AND ACTED WITH ARROGANCE

8  SO I HAVE CALLED ALOUD TO THEM

9  AND IN PUBLIC AND IN PRIVATE SPOKEN TO THEM

10  SAYING, ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS 
FOR HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS

11  HE WILL SEND RAIN IN ABUNDANCE TO YOU

12  AND GIVE INCREASE IN WEALTH AND SONS TO YOU
AND GIVE YOU GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH YOU

13  WHY DO YOU HOPE NOT FOR A REWARD 
OF KINDNESS AND LONG SUFFERING WITH YOUR LORD?

14  SEEING THAT IT IS HE THAT HAS CREATED YOU IN STAGES DIVERSE 

15  SEE YOU NOT HOW GOD IS THE CREATOR
OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS ONE ABOVE THE OTHER?

16  HE MADE THE MOON A LIGHT IN THE MIDST SHINING BRIGHTLY 
AND HE MADE THE SUN AS A LAMP SHINING GLORIOUSLY 

17  AND HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM THE EARTH GROWING GRADUALLY

18  IN THE END HE WILL RETURN YOU INTO THE EARTH AGAIN
AND THEN HE WILL RAISE YOU FORTH AGAIN

19  GOD MADE THE EARTH FOR YOU AS A CARPET SPREAD WIDELY

20  THAT YOU MAY GO ABOUT IN IT IN ROADS SPACIOUSLY 

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CHAPTER 71.  NOAH                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

21 NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, MY PEOPLE HAVE DISOBEYED ME
AND THEY FOLLOW MEN WHOSE WEALTH AND PROGENY 
GIVE THEM NO INCREASE BUT LOSS ONLY

22  AND THEY HAVE DEVISED A PLOT THAT IS MIGHTY

23  AND THEY HAVE SAID TO EACH OTHER, ABANDON NOT YOUR DIETIES 
NOT WADD, SUWA,YAGUTH,YAUQ, NASR OR ANY OF THESE

24  THEY HAVE ALREADY MISLED MANY 
AND GRANT TO THE WRONG DOERS NO INCREASE 
WHO CONTINUE TO ACT REBELLIOUSLY 

25  THEY WERE DROWNED IN THE FLOOD BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS  
AND THEY WERE MADE TO ENTER THE FIRE AS PUNISHMENT
AND THEY FOUND BESIDES GOD NO AVERTMENT

26  AND NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, LEAVE NONE
OF THE DISBELIEVERS ON EARTH, NOT A SINGLE ONE

27  FOR IF YOU DO LEAVE OF THEM ANY
YOUR DEVOTEES THEY WILL INDEED MISLEAD  
AND NONE BUT UNGRATEFUL ONES WILL THEY BREED

28  LORD, FORGIVE ME AND MY PARENTS AND ALL WHO ENTER 
MY HOUSE IN FAITH AND ALL OF THE BELIEVERS 
MEN AND WOMEN AND TO THE WRONG DOERS 
GRANT NO INCREASE TO THEM BUT IN ERROR

     

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