71:1 Indeed, We sent Nooh (عليه السلام) to his people, (saying), 'Warn your people before a painful punishment comes to them.'

71:2 He said : 'O my People! I am sent towards you as a manifest Warner.

71:3 '(With a message) that you should worship Allah (alone); you should fear Him, and obey me.'

71:4 '(If you do so) He will forgive you your sins and give you respite for an appointed term. Surely, the term of Allah when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you but knew.'

71:5 (After all his efforts were exhausted) he said : 'O my Lord! Surely, I have called my people night and day,

71:6 but the more I called them, the further they ran away.

71:7 Each time I called on them to seek Your pardon, they thrust their fingers in ears and drew their cloaks over their heads, persisting in sin and puffing themselves up with insolent pride.

71:8 Surely, I called them publicly (aloud).

71:9 'Indeed, I (not only) called (and conveyed the message) to them in public, (but) I even reasoned with them in private,

71:10 saying, 'Seek your Lord’s forgiveness,  He is truly Most Forgiving.

71:11 He will send down abundant rain from the sky for you,

71:12 and will provide you with wealth and children and He will give you gardens and rivers.

71:13 And what is the matter with that you don’t have any hope from the Majesty of Allah),

71:14 when He truly created you in stages (of development)?

71:15 Do you not see how Allah created seven heavens, one above the other,

71:16 placing the moon within them as a (reflected) light, and the sun as a (radiant) lamp?

71:17 Allah makes you grow out of the earth like plants.

71:18 Then He will return you into it (the same earth), and bring you forth (to life again on the Day of Resurrection)?

71:19 'And Allah has made for you the earth wide spread and leveled,

71:20 so that you may walk upon its spacious paths.'

71:21 (Eventually),  Nooh (عليه السلام) cried, 'My Lord! They have certainly persisted in disobeying me, and followed (instead) those (elite) whose (abundant) wealth and children only increase them in loss.

71:22 'And they have made a mighty plot,

71:23 urging (their followers), 'Do not abandon your idols, especially Wadd, Suwâ’, Yaghûth, Ya’ûq, and Nasr.’  

71:24 'These idols have led many astray. (Surely), You let (no one but) the evil doers increase (and advance) in misguidance.'

71:25 Because of their sins they were drowned (in the flood) and were made to enter the (Hell) Fire. They did not find any help for them against Allah.

71:26 And Nooh (عليه السلام) said, 'My Lord, do not leave a single unbeliever on the face of the earth.'

71:27 For if You spare (any of) them, they will certainly mislead Your servants, and give birth only to (wicked) sinners and staunch disbelievers.

71:28 'O My Lord! Forgive me, my parents and every true believer who seeks refuge in my house, and all believing men and believing women. As to the wrongdoers, grant them increase in nothing but destruction.'