Noah — Arthur John Arberry Translation – Parallel Quran

1 Noah preaches

إِنَّاۤ أَرۡسَلۡنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوۡمِهِۦۤ أَنۡ أَنذِرۡ قَوۡمَكَ مِن قَبۡلِ أَن یَأۡتِیَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِیمࣱ ۝١

Arthur John Arberry

We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement.

innā arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihi an andhir qawmaka min qabli an yatiyahum ʿadhābun alīmu

قَالَ یَـٰقَوۡمِ إِنِّی لَكُمۡ نَذِیرࣱ مُّبِینٌ ۝٢

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He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner

qāla yāqawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīnu

أَنِ ٱعۡبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِیعُونِ ۝٣

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saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me

ani uʿ'budū l-laha wa-ittaqūhu wa-aṭīʿūn

یَغۡفِرۡ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمۡ وَیُؤَخِّرۡكُمۡ إِلَىٰۤ أَجَلࣲ مُّسَمًّىۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَاۤءَ لَا یُؤَخَّرُۚ لَوۡ كُنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ ۝٤

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and He will forgive you your sins, and defer you to a stated term; God's term, when it comes, cannot be deferred, did you but know."

yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wayu-akhir'kum ilā ajalin musamman inna ajala l-lahi idhā jāa lā yu-akharu law kuntum taʿlamūn

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّی دَعَوۡتُ قَوۡمِی لَیۡلࣰا وَنَهَارࣰا ۝٥

Arthur John Arberry

He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day

qāla rabbi innī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wanahāra

فَلَمۡ یَزِدۡهُمۡ دُعَاۤءِیۤ إِلَّا فِرَارࣰا ۝٦

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but my calling has only increased them in flight

falam yazid'hum duʿāī illā firāra

وَإِنِّی كُلَّمَا دَعَوۡتُهُمۡ لِتَغۡفِرَ لَهُمۡ جَعَلُوۤا۟ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمۡ فِیۤ ءَاذَانِهِمۡ وَٱسۡتَغۡشَوۡا۟ ثِیَابَهُمۡ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُوا۟ ٱسۡتِكۡبَارࣰا ۝٧

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And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud

wa-innī kullamā daʿawtuhum litaghfira lahum jaʿalū aṣābiʿahum fī ādhānihim wa-is'taghshaw thiyābahum wa-aṣarrū wa-is'takbarū is'tik'bāra

ثُمَّ إِنِّی دَعَوۡتُهُمۡ جِهَارࣰا ۝٨

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Then indeed I called them openly

thumma innī daʿawtuhum jihāra

ثُمَّ إِنِّیۤ أَعۡلَنتُ لَهُمۡ وَأَسۡرَرۡتُ لَهُمۡ إِسۡرَارࣰا ۝٩

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then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly

thumma innī aʿlantu lahum wa-asrartu lahum is'rāra

فَقُلۡتُ ٱسۡتَغۡفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمۡ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارࣰا ۝١٠

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and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving

faqul'tu is'taghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffāra

یُرۡسِلِ ٱلسَّمَاۤءَ عَلَیۡكُم مِّدۡرَارࣰا ۝١١

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and He will loose heaven upon you in torrent

yur'sili l-samāa ʿalaykum mid'rāra

وَیُمۡدِدۡكُم بِأَمۡوَ ٰلࣲ وَبَنِینَ وَیَجۡعَل لَّكُمۡ جَنَّـٰتࣲ وَیَجۡعَل لَّكُمۡ أَنۡهَـٰرࣰا ۝١٢

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and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers

wayum'did'kum bi-amwālin wabanīna wayajʿal lakum jannātin wayajʿal lakum anhāra

مَّا لَكُمۡ لَا تَرۡجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارࣰا ۝١٣

Arthur John Arberry

What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God

mā lakum lā tarjūna lillahi waqāra

وَقَدۡ خَلَقَكُمۡ أَطۡوَارًا ۝١٤

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seeing He created you by stages

waqad khalaqakum aṭwāra

أَلَمۡ تَرَوۡا۟ كَیۡفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبۡعَ سَمَـٰوَ ٰتࣲ طِبَاقࣰا ۝١٥

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Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another

alam taraw kayfa khalaqa l-lahu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqa

وَجَعَلَ ٱلۡقَمَرَ فِیهِنَّ نُورࣰا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمۡسَ سِرَاجࣰا ۝١٦

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and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp

wajaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wajaʿala l-shamsa sirāja

وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ نَبَاتࣰا ۝١٧

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And God caused you to grow out of the earth

wal-lahu anbatakum mina l-arḍi nabāta

ثُمَّ یُعِیدُكُمۡ فِیهَا وَیُخۡرِجُكُمۡ إِخۡرَاجࣰا ۝١٨

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then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth

thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukh'rijukum ikh'rāja

وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ بِسَاطࣰا ۝١٩

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And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet

wal-lahu jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa bisāṭa

لِّتَسۡلُكُوا۟ مِنۡهَا سُبُلࣰا فِجَاجࣰا ۝٢٠

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that thereof you may thread ways, ravines."

litaslukū min'hā subulan fijāja

2 Destruction of Transgressors

قَالَ نُوحࣱ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمۡ عَصَوۡنِی وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمۡ یَزِدۡهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥۤ إِلَّا خَسَارࣰا ۝٢١

Arthur John Arberry

Noah said, 'My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss

qāla nūḥun rabbi innahum ʿaṣawnī wa-ittabaʿū man lam yazid'hu māluhu wawaladuhu illā khasāra

وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكۡرࣰا كُبَّارࣰا ۝٢٢

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and have devised a mighty devic

wamakarū makran kubbāra

وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمۡ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدࣰّا وَلَا سُوَاعࣰا وَلَا یَغُوثَ وَیَعُوقَ وَنَسۡرࣰا ۝٢٣

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and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, neither Nasr."

waqālū lā tadharunna ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddan walā suwāʿan walā yaghūtha wayaʿūqa wanasra

وَقَدۡ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِیرࣰاۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِینَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلࣰا ۝٢٤

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And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error!

waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalāla

مِّمَّا خَطِیۤءَـٰتِهِمۡ أُغۡرِقُوا۟ فَأُدۡخِلُوا۟ نَارࣰا فَلَمۡ یَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارࣰا ۝٢٥

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And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them

mimmā khaṭīātihim ugh'riqū fa-ud'khilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūni l-lahi anṣāra

وَقَالَ نُوحࣱ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرۡ عَلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ مِنَ ٱلۡكَـٰفِرِینَ دَیَّارًا ۝٢٦

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And Noah said, 'My Lord, leave not upon the earth of the unbelievers even one

waqāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā l-arḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyāra

إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرۡهُمۡ یُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا یَلِدُوۤا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرࣰا كَفَّارࣰا ۝٢٧

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Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines

innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffāra

رَّبِّ ٱغۡفِرۡ لِی وَلِوَ ٰلِدَیَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَیۡتِیَ مُؤۡمِنࣰا وَلِلۡمُؤۡمِنِینَ وَٱلۡمُؤۡمِنَـٰتِۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِینَ إِلَّا تَبَارَۢا ۝٢٨

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My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whosoever enters my house as a believer, and the believers, men and women alike; and do Thou not increase the evildoers save in ruin!

rabbi igh'fir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya mu'minan walil'mu'minīna wal-mu'mināti walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā tabāra

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