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

He said: “O my People! I am sent towards you as a plain Warner.

[Saying], ‘Worship Allah , fear Him and obey me.

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!

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

But my call has only made them flee the more:

And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.
Meaning:-
Persisted: to continue steadfastly. (steadfastly meaning: strongly and without stopping)
Arrogant: self-important, proud in an unpleasant, revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.

Then surely I called to them aloud,

appealed them openly in public and secretly in private,

“I said (to them): ‘Ask forgiveness from your Lord; Verily, He is Oft-Forgiving;

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

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

What is the matter with you, [that you fear not Allah (His punishment), and] you hope not for reward (from Allah or you believe not in His Oneness).

While He has created you in stages?

Can you not see how Allah created the seven heavens one above the other,

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

Allah has caused you to grow as a growth from the earth.

He will return you to the same earth and then raise you back to life again on the Day of Resurrection?

And Allah has made for you the earth wide spread (an expanse).
Meaning:-
Expanse: an area of something, typically land or sea, presenting a wide continuous surface.

That you may go about therein in broad roads.

Finally, Nuh (Noah) submitted: “O Lord! My people have disobeyed me, and followed those chiefs whose wealth and children have added to them nothing but loss.

“And they have plotted a mighty plot.

and said to each other: ‘Do not leave your gods; especially Wadd, Suwa, Yaghus, Yauq and Nasr (the names of their idols).’

And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error.”
Meaning:-
wrongdoers: criminal, a person who behaves illegally, or dishonestly; an offender.

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

As Nuh had prayed: “O Lord! Do not leave a single unbeliever on the surface of the earth.

“If You leave them, they will mislead Your slaves, and they will beget none but wicked disbelievers.”
Meaning:-
Beget: To produce (children) by sexual reproduction.
Wicked: evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous:

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.”
Meaning:-
wrongdoers:  criminal, a person who behaves illegally, or dishonestly; an offender.