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[71:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
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[71:1] We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful
retribution afflicts them." |
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[71:2] He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you. |
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[71:3] "To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey
me. |
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[71:4] "He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined
period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is
due, if you only knew." |
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[71:5] He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day. |
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[71:6] "But my invitation only increased their aversion. |
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[71:7] "Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their
fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and
turned arrogant. |
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[71:8] "Then I invited them publicly. |
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[71:9] "Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately. |
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[71:10] "I said, `Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving. |
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[71:11] " `He will then shower you generously with rain. |
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[71:12] " `And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.'
" |
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[71:13] Why should you not strive to reverence GOD? |
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[71:14] He is the One who created you in stages. |
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[71:15] Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers? |
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[71:16] He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to
be a lamp. |
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[71:17] And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants. |
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[71:18] Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out. |
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[71:19] GOD made the earth habitable for you. |
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[71:20] That you may build roads therein. |
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[71:21] Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were
even more corrupted when blessed with money and children. |
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[71:22] "They schemed terrible schemes. |
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[71:23] "They said, `Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa`,
Yaghouth, Ya`ooq, and Nasr.' |
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[71:24] "They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss." |
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[71:25] Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire.
They found no helpers to protect them from GOD. |
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[71:26] Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth. |
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[71:27] "For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give
birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers. |
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[71:28] "My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home
as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the
disbelievers anything but annihilation." |
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