We sent Noah to his people: “Warn your people before there comes upon them a painful punishment.” He said, “O my people, I am to you a clear warner. Worship God and reverence Him, and obey me. And He will forgive you of your sins, and reprieve you until a stated term. God’s term cannot be deferred once it has arrived, if you only knew.” He said, “My Lord, I have called my people night and day. But my call added only to their flight. Whenever I call them to You, so that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, and wrap themselves in their garments, and persist, and are arrogant with utmost arrogance. Then I called them openly. Then I announced to them, and I spoke to them privately. I said, ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving. He will send down upon you abundant rain from the sky. And provide you with wealth and children, and give you gardens, and give you rivers.’” What is the matter with you, that you do not attribute to God any grandeur? When He created you in stages? Do you not see how God created seven heavens in layers? And placed the moon in them as a light, and the sun as a lamp? And God made you grow from the earth like plants. Then He will return you into it, and bring you out again. And God made the earth a carpet for you. That you may travel its spacious paths.’” Noah said, “My Lord, they have disobeyed me, and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss. And they devised a mighty scheme. And they said, ‘Do not abandon your gods; do not abandon Wadd, nor Suwa’, nor Yaghuth, and Ya’uq, and Nasr.’” “They have misled many. So increase the wrongdoers only in error.” Because of their sins, they were drowned, and were admitted into a Fire. And they found no helpers against God. Noah said, “My Lord, do not leave on the earth any dweller from among the disbelievers. If You leave them, they will mislead Your servants, and will breed only wicked disbelievers. My Lord, forgive me, and my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer, and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in perdition.”
