Surah Nūĥ (Noah) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. إنا أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أنذر قومك من قبل أن يأتيهم عذاب أليم

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   Indeed We sent Noah to his people, [saying,] ‘Warn your people before a painful punishment overtakes them.’

   ʾinnā ʾarsalnā nūḥan ʾilā qawmihī ʾan ʾandhir qawmaka min qabli ʾan yaʾtiyahum ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

2. قال يا قوم إني لكم نذير مبين

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   He said, ‘O my people! Indeed, I am a manifest warner to you.

   qāla yā-qawmi ʾinnī lakum nadhīrun mubīnun

3. أن اعبدوا الله واتقوه وأطيعون

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   Worship Allah and be wary of Him, and obey me,

   ʾani ʿbudū llāha wa-ttaqūhu wa-ʾaṭīʿūni

4. يغفر لكم من ذنوبكم ويؤخركم إلى أجل مسمى إن أجل الله إذا جاء لا يؤخر لو كنتم تعلمون

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   that He may forgive you some of your sins and respite you until a specified time. Indeed when Allah’s [appointed] time comes, it cannot be deferred, if you know.’

   yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wa-yuʾakhkhirkum ʾilā ʾajalin musamman ʾinna ʾajala llāhi ʾidhā jāʾa lā yuʾakhkharu law kuntum taʿlamūna

5. قال رب إني دعوت قومي ليلا ونهارا

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   He said, ‘My Lord! Indeed, I have summoned my people night and day

   qāla rabbi ʾinnī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wa-nahāran

6. فلم يزدهم دعائي إلا فرارا

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   but my summons only increases their evasion.

   fa-lam yazidhum duʿāʾī ʾillā firāran

7. وإني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا أصابعهم في آذانهم واستغشوا ثيابهم وأصروا واستكبروا استكبارا

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   Indeed whenever I have summoned them, so that You might forgive them, they would put their fingers into their ears and draw their cloaks over their heads, and they were persistent [in their unfaith], and disdainful in [their] arrogance.

   wa-ʾinnī kullamā daʿawtuhum li-taghfira lahum jaʿalū ʾaṣābiʿahum fī ʾādhānihim wa-staghshaw thiyābahum wa-ʾaṣarrū wa-stakbarū stikbāran

8. ثم إني دعوتهم جهارا

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   Again I summoned them aloud,

   thumma ʾinnī daʿawtuhum jihāran

9. ثم إني أعلنت لهم وأسررت لهم إسرارا

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   and again appealed to them publicly and confided with them privately,

   thumma ʾinnī ʾaʿlantu lahum wa-ʾasrartu lahum ʾisrāran

10. فقلت استغفروا ربكم إنه كان غفارا

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    telling [them]: ‘‘Plead to your Lord for forgiveness. Indeed, He is all-forgiving.

    fa-qultu staghfirū rabbakum ʾinnahū kāna ghaffāran