Surah Nūĥ (Noah) in English

1. يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا

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   He will send for you abundant rains from the sky,

   yursili s-samāʾa ʿalaykum midrāran

2. ويمددكم بأموال وبنين ويجعل لكم جنات ويجعل لكم أنهارا

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   and aid you with wealth and sons, and provide you with gardens and provide you with streams.

   wa-yumdidkum bi-ʾamwālin wa-banīna wa-yajʿal lakum jannātin wa-yajʿal lakum ʾanhāran

3. ما لكم لا ترجون لله وقارا

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   What is the matter with you that you do not look upon Allah with veneration,

   mā lakum lā tarjūna li-llāhi waqāran

4. وقد خلقكم أطوارا

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   though He has created you in [various] stages?

   wa-qad khalaqakum ʾaṭwāran

5. ألم تروا كيف خلق الله سبع سماوات طباقا

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   Have you not seen how Allah has created the seven heavens in layers,

   ʾa-lam taraw kayfa khalaqa llāhu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqan

6. وجعل القمر فيهن نورا وجعل الشمس سراجا

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   and has made therein the moon for a light and the sun for a lamp?

   wa-jaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wa-jaʿala sh-shamsa sirājan

7. والله أنبتكم من الأرض نباتا

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   Allah made you grow from the earth, with a [vegetable] growth.

   wa-llāhu ʾanbatakum mina l-ʾarḍi nabātan

8. ثم يعيدكم فيها ويخرجكم إخراجا

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   Then He makes you return to it, and He will bring you forth [without fail].

   thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wa-yukhrijukum ʾikhrājan

9. والله جعل لكم الأرض بساطا

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   Allah has made the earth a vast expanse for you

   wa-llāhu jaʿala lakumu l-ʾarḍa bisāṭan

10. لتسلكوا منها سبلا فجاجا

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    so that you may travel over its spacious ways.’’ ’

    li-taslukū minhā subulan fijājan

11. قال نوح رب إنهم عصوني واتبعوا من لم يزده ماله وولده إلا خسارا

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    Noah said, ‘My Lord! They have disobeyed me, following someone whose wealth and children only add to his loss,

    qāla nūḥun rabbi ʾinnahum ʿaṣawnī wa-ttabaʿū man lam yazidhu māluhū wa-waladuhū ʾillā khasāran

12. ومكروا مكرا كبارا

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    and they have devised an outrageous plot.

    wa-makarū makran kubbāran

13. وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا يغوث ويعوق ونسرا

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    They say, ‘‘Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth, Ya‘uq and Nasr,’’

    wa-qālū lā tadharunna ʾālihatakum wa-lā tadharunna waddan wa-lā suwāʿan wa-lā yaghūtha wa-yaʿūqa wa-nasran

14. وقد أضلوا كثيرا ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ضلالا

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    and already they have led many astray. Do not increase the wrongdoers in anything but error.’

    wa-qad ʾaḍallū kathīran wa-lā tazidi ẓ-ẓālimīna ʾillā ḍalālan

15. مما خطيئاتهم أغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا فلم يجدوا لهم من دون الله أنصارا

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    They were drowned because of their iniquities, then made to enter a Fire, and they did not find any helpers for themselves besides Allah.

    mimmā khaṭīʾātihim ʾughriqū fa-ʾudkhilū nāran fa-lam yajidū lahum min dūni llāhi ʾanṣāran

16. وقال نوح رب لا تذر على الأرض من الكافرين ديارا

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    And Noah said, ‘My Lord! ‘Do not leave on the earth any inhabitant from among the faithless.

    wa-qāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā l-ʾarḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyāran

17. إنك إن تذرهم يضلوا عبادك ولا يلدوا إلا فاجرا كفارا

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    If You leave them, they will lead astray Your servants, and will beget none except vicious ingrates.

    ʾinnaka ʾin tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka wa-lā yalidū ʾillā fājiran kaffāran

18. رب اغفر لي ولوالدي ولمن دخل بيتي مؤمنا وللمؤمنين والمؤمنات ولا تزد الظالمين إلا تبارا

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    My Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and whoever enters my house in faith, and the faithful men and women, and do not increase the wrongdoers in anything but ruin.’

    rabbi ghfir lī wa-li-wālidayya wa-li-man dakhala baytiya muʾminan wa-li-l-muʾminīna wa-l-muʾmināti wa-lā tazidi ẓ-ẓālimīna ʾillā tabāran