In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

"71.1":    Surely We sent Nuh to his people, saying: Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement.

"71.2":    He said: O my people! Surely I am a plain warner to you:

"71.3":    That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me:

"71.4":    He will forgive you some of your faults and grant you a delay to an appointed term; surely the term of Allah when it comes is not postponed; did you but know!

"71.5":     He said: O my Lord! surely I have called my people by night and by day!

"71.6":    But my call has only made them flee the more:

"71.7":    And whenever I have called them that Thou mayest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, and persist and are puffed up with pride:

"71.8":    Then surely I called to them aloud:

"71.9":    Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret:

"71.10":    Then I said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving:

"71.11":    He will send down upon you the cloud, pouring down abundance of rain:

"71.12":    And help you with wealth and sons, and make for you gardens, and make for you rivers.

"71.13":    What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah?

"71.14":    And indeed He has created you through various grades:

"71.15":    Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens ,~ one above another,

"71.16":    And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp?

"71.17":    And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth:

"71.18":    Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth:

"71.19":    And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse,

"71.20":    That you may go along therein in wide paths.

"71.21":    Nuh said: My Lord! surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss.

"71.22":    And they have planned a very great plan.

"71.23":    And they say: By no means leave your gods, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa; nor Yaghus, and Yauq and Nasr.

"71.24":    And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error.

"71.25":    Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter fire, so they did not find any helpers besides Allah.

"71.26":    And Nuh said: My Lord! leave not upon the land any dweller from among the unbelievers:

"71.27":    For surely if Thou leave them they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but immoral, ungrateful (children)

"71.28":    My Lord! forgive me and my parents and him who enters my house believing, and the believing men and the believing women; and do not increase the unjust in aught but destruction!