Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them.
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Nuh · Noah
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe said: O my people! Lo! I am a plain warner unto you
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall(Bidding you): Serve Allah and keep your duty unto Him and obey me,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThat 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe said: My Lord! Lo! I have called unto my people night and day
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallBut all my calling doth but add to their repugnance;
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd 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.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd lo! I have called unto them aloud,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd lo! I have made public proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd I have said: Seek pardon of your Lord. Lo! He was ever Forgiving.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe will let loose the sky for you in plenteous rain,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd will help you with wealth and sons, and will assign unto you Gardens and will assign unto you rivers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWhat aileth you that ye hope not toward Allah for dignity
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWhen He created you by (divers) stages?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallSee ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd Allah hath caused you to grow as a growth from the earth,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd afterward He maketh you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd Allah hath made the earth a wide expanse for you
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThat ye may thread the valley-ways thereof.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallNoah said: My Lord! Lo! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught save ruin;
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd they have plotted a mighty plot,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd they have said: Forsake not your gods. Forsake not Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd they have led many astray, and Thou increasest the wrong-doers in naught save error.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallBecause of their sins they were drowned, then made to enter a Fire. And they found they had no helpers in place of Allah.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers in the land.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallIf Thou shouldst leave them, they will mislead Thy slaves and will beget none save lewd ingrates.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallMy 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.
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Quran text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani), tanzil.net – CC BY 3.0, unchanged. Translation: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall – Public domain (published 1930).
