Quran Chapters

Chapter 71 : Nuh – 28 Verses

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

71:1

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

71:2

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

71:3

[Saying], ‘Worship Allah , fear 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, “My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.

71:6

But my call has only made them flee the more:

71:7

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.

71:8

Then surely I called to them aloud,

71:9

appealed them openly in public and secretly in private,

71:10

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

71:11

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

71:12

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

71:13

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).

71:14

While He has created you in stages?

71:15

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

71:16

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

71:17

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

71:18

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

71:19

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.

71:20

That you may go about therein in broad roads.

71:21

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.

71:22

“And they have plotted a mighty plot.

71:23

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

71:24

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.

71:25

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

71:26

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

71:27

“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:

71:28

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.