Surah Nuh English Translation & Transliteration

¹We had sent Noah to his people as a messenger, to warn them before a painful punishment came upon them.

²Noah said to them: O my people! I am a warner sent by Allah to warn you clearly.

³Serve Allah alone, guard yourselves against defying Him, and follow me, so that

⁴Allah may forgive your sins and grant you respite until an appointed term. For when the term set by Allah comes, it is never deferred; if only you knew this!

⁵At last Noah laid his plea before Allah: —My Lord, I have called my people to Your religion night and day, without pause.

⁶But my calling has done nothing but drive them further away.

⁷So much so that whenever I called them to Your forgiveness, they stuffed their fingers into their ears so as not to hear, wrapped themselves in their garments/took refuge in their rank and position, and thus resisted the truth; they grew ever more arrogant.

⁸There were days when I openly invited them to the belief in Your oneness (tawhid).

⁹There were days when I called aloud, and days when I explained in private.

¹⁰I said to them: —Come, ask your Lord for forgiveness. For He is most forgiving.

¹¹So that He, in turn, may send abundant rain down on you from the sky,

¹²give you wealth and children, bestow on you many vineyards and gardens, and make rivers flow for you.

¹³And what is the matter with you, that you do not appreciate the greatness of Allah?

¹⁴Yet He created you by taking you through various stages.

¹⁵(15-16) Do you not see how harmoniously He created the seven heavens, one above another, and made the moon a light within them that reflects light, and the sun a source of light?

¹⁶(15-16) Do you not see how harmoniously He created the seven heavens, one above another, and made the moon a light within them that reflects light, and the sun a source of light?

¹⁷Allah brought you into being from the elements in the earth, just like plants.

¹⁸Then He will return you to it and bring you forth from it again.

¹⁹Allah has spread out the earth beneath your feet for you to live on.

²⁰And He has formed roads and valleys in it for you to travel about.

²¹Noah went on to say: —My Lord, they have rebelled against me. They have followed those whose wealth and children do nothing but drag them into ruin.

²²—What is more, they laid unimaginable traps for me.

²³—They told the people: —Never abandon your gods; above all, never give up Wadd, Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, and Nasr.

²⁴—Thus they led most of the people astray. My Lord, increase the punishment of these wrongdoers who persist in error!

²⁵In the end they were drowned because of the sins they committed, and they ended up in Hell. And they found no helper who could save them from Allah's punishment.

²⁶At last Noah ended his prayer thus: —My Lord, do not leave on these lands a single disbeliever who covers up the truth!

²⁷If You leave them, they will lead Your servants astray and raise up in these lands an insolent generation of disbelievers.

²⁸O my Lord, forgive me, my mother and father, and the men and women who enter my household as believers. And increase only the ruin of the wrongdoers who persist in error!