Surah Nuh

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. 71:1 ▶

   إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ﴿١﴾

   innā 'arsalnā nūḥan 'ilā qawmihī 'an 'andhir qawmaka min qabli 'ay ya'tiyahum ʿadhābun 'alīm

   Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

2. 71:2 ▶

   قَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ ﴿٢﴾

   qāla yāqawmi 'innī lakum nadhīrum mubīn

   He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner -

3. 71:3 ▶

   أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ ﴿٣﴾

   ani ʿbudu llāha wattaqūhu wa'aṭīʿūn

   To worship Allāh, fear Him and obey me.

4. 71:4 ▶

   يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَآءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ ۖ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٤﴾

   yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wayu'akhkhirkum 'ilā 'ajalim musammā | inna 'ajala llāhi 'idhā jā'a lā yu'akhkhar | law kuntum taʿlamūn

   He [i.e., Allāh] will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allāh, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew."

5. 71:5 ▶

   قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا ﴿٥﴾

   qāla rabbi 'innī daʿawtu qawmī laylaw wanahārā

   He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

6. 71:6 ▶

   فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًا ﴿٦﴾

   falam yazid-hum duʿā'ī 'illā firārā

   But my invitation increased them not except in flight [i.e., aversion].

7. 71:7 ▶

   وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًا ﴿٧﴾

   wa'innī kullamā daʿawtuhum litaghfira lahum jaʿalū 'aṣābiʿahum fī 'ādhānihim wastaghshaw thiyābahum wa'aṣarrū wastakbaru stikbārā

   And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.

   Refusing to look or listen.

8. 71:8 ▶

   ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا ﴿٨﴾

   thumma 'innī daʿawtuhum jihārā

   Then I invited them publicly.

9. 71:9 ▶

   ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا ﴿٩﴾

   thumma 'innī 'aʿlantu lahum wa'asrartu lahum 'isrārā

   Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly

10. 71:10 ▶

    فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا ﴿١٠﴾

    faqultu staghfirū rabbakum 'innahū kāna ghaffārā

    And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.

11. 71:11 ▶

    يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا ﴿١١﴾

    yursili s-samā'a ʿalaykum midrārā

    He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers

12. 71:12 ▶

    وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَـٰرًا ﴿١٢﴾

    wayumdidkum bi'amwāliw wabanīna wayajʿal lakum jannātiw wayajʿal lakum 'anhārā

    And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

13. 71:13 ▶

    مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا ﴿١٣﴾

    mā lakum lā tarjūna lillāhi waqārā

    What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allāh [due] grandeur

14. 71:14 ▶

    وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا ﴿١٤﴾

    waqad khalaqakum 'aṭwārā

    While He has created you in stages?

    i.e., in various progressive states and conditions. See also 22:5 and 23:12-14 in reference to development of the embryo.

15. 71:15 ▶

    أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَـٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا ﴿١٥﴾

    alam taraw kayfa khalaqa llāhu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqā

    Do you not consider how Allāh has created seven heavens in layers

    See footnote to 67:3.

16. 71:16 ▶

    وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا ﴿١٦﴾

    wajaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūraw wajaʿala sh-shamsa sirājā

    And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

17. 71:17 ▶

    وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا ﴿١٧﴾

    wallāhu 'ambatakum mina l-arḍi nabātā

    And Allāh has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

18. 71:18 ▶

    ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا ﴿١٨﴾

    thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukhrijukum 'ikhrājā

    Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

19. 71:19 ▶

    وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا ﴿١٩﴾

    wallāhu jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa bisāṭā

    And Allāh has made for you the earth an expanse

20. 71:20 ▶

    لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا ﴿٢٠﴾

    litaslukū minhā subulan fijājā

    That you may follow therein roads of passage.'"

21. 71:21 ▶

    قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًا ﴿٢١﴾

    qāla nūḥur rabbi 'innahum ʿaṣawnī wattabaʿū mal lam yazid-hu māluhū wawaladuhū 'illā khasārā

    Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

22. 71:22 ▶

    وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا ﴿٢٢﴾

    wamakarū makran kubbārā

    And they conspired an immense conspiracy

23. 71:23 ▶

    وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا ﴿٢٣﴾

    waqālū lā tadharunna 'ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddaw walā suwāʿaw walā yaghūtha wayaʿūqa wanasrā

    And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwāʿ or Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr.'

    These were the names of specific idols named after pious men of earlier generations.

24. 71:24 ▶

    وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِيرًا ۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلًا ﴿٢٤﴾

    waqad 'aḍallū kathīrā | walā tazidi ẓ-ẓālimīna 'illā ḍalālā

    And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

25. 71:25 ▶

    مِّمَّا خَطِيٓـَٔـٰتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا۟ فَأُدْخِلُوا۟ نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارًا ﴿٢٥﴾

    mimmā khaṭī'ātihim 'ughriqū fa'udkhilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūni llāhi 'anṣārā

    Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allāh [any] helpers.

26. 71:26 ▶

    وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ دَيَّارًا ﴿٢٦﴾

    waqāla nūḥur rabbi lā tadhar ʿala l-arḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyārā

    And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.

27. 71:27 ▶

    إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا ﴿٢٧﴾

    innaka 'in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū 'illā fājiran kaffārā

    Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.

28. 71:28 ▶

    رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِىَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًۢا ﴿٢٨﴾

    rabbi ghfir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya mu'minaw walil-mu'minīna wal-mu'mināti walā tazidi ẓ-ẓālimīna 'illā tabārā

    My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."

In the transliteration, “|”: the reciter stops; “·”: sakt, a brief cut without taking a breath.