Noah — Dr Laleh Bakhtiar Translation – Parallel Quran

1 Noah preaches

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Truly, We sent Noah to his folk saying: Warn thy folk before a painful punishment approaches them.

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

قَالَ یَـٰقَوۡمِ إِنِّی لَكُمۡ نَذِیرࣱ مُّبِینٌ ۝٢

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

He said: O my folk! Truly, I am a clear warner to you:

qāla yāqawmi innī lakum nadhīrun mubīnu

أَنِ ٱعۡبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِیعُونِ ۝٣

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Worship God and be Godfearing of Him and obey 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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

He forgives you some of your impieties and postpones for you a term, that which is determined. Truly, when the term of God drew near, it will not be postponed if you had been but knowing.

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

He said: My Lord! Truly, I called to my folk nighttime and daytime,

qāla rabbi innī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wanahāra

فَلَمۡ یَزِدۡهُمۡ دُعَاۤءِیۤ إِلَّا فِرَارࣰا ۝٦

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

but my supplication increases not but their running away.

falam yazid'hum duʿāī illā firāra

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And, truly, as often as I called to them that Thou wouldst forgive them, they laid their fingertips over their ears and covered themselves with their garments. And they maintained growing arrogant as they grew arrogant.

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Again, truly, I called to them with openness.

thumma innī daʿawtuhum jihāra

ثُمَّ إِنِّیۤ أَعۡلَنتُ لَهُمۡ وَأَسۡرَرۡتُ لَهُمۡ إِسۡرَارࣰا ۝٩

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Again, I spoke openly to them and confided in them, keeping secret our converse.

thumma innī aʿlantu lahum wa-asrartu lahum is'rāra

فَقُلۡتُ ٱسۡتَغۡفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمۡ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارࣰا ۝١٠

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And I said: Ask for forgiveness of your Lord. Truly, He had been a Forgiver.

faqul'tu is'taghfirū rabbakum innahu kāna ghaffāra

یُرۡسِلِ ٱلسَّمَاۤءَ عَلَیۡكُم مِّدۡرَارࣰا ۝١١

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

He sends from heaven abundant rain for you.

yur'sili l-samāa ʿalaykum mid'rāra

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

He will furnish you relief with wealth and children. And He will assign for you Gardens and will assign for you rivers.

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

مَّا لَكُمۡ لَا تَرۡجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارࣰا ۝١٣

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

What is it with you that you hope not for dignity from God?

mā lakum lā tarjūna lillahi waqāra

وَقَدۡ خَلَقَكُمۡ أَطۡوَارًا ۝١٤

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And, surely, He created you in stages?

waqad khalaqakum aṭwāra

أَلَمۡ تَرَوۡا۟ كَیۡفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبۡعَ سَمَـٰوَ ٰتࣲ طِبَاقࣰا ۝١٥

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Consider you not how God created the seven heavens, one on another?

alam taraw kayfa khalaqa l-lahu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqa

وَجَعَلَ ٱلۡقَمَرَ فِیهِنَّ نُورࣰا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمۡسَ سِرَاجࣰا ۝١٦

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And how He made the moon in them as a light and how He made the sun as a light-giving lamp?

wajaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wajaʿala l-shamsa sirāja

وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ نَبَاتࣰا ۝١٧

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And how God caused you to develop, bringing you forth from the earth.

wal-lahu anbatakum mina l-arḍi nabāta

ثُمَّ یُعِیدُكُمۡ فِیهَا وَیُخۡرِجُكُمۡ إِخۡرَاجࣰا ۝١٨

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Again, He will cause you to return into it and bring you out in an expelling.

thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wayukh'rijukum ikh'rāja

وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ بِسَاطࣰا ۝١٩

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And how God made for you the earth as a carpet

wal-lahu jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa bisāṭa

لِّتَسۡلُكُوا۟ مِنۡهَا سُبُلࣰا فِجَاجࣰا ۝٢٠

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

that you may tread in it ways through ravines.

litaslukū min'hā subulan fijāja

2 Destruction of Transgressors

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Noah said: My Lord! Truly, they rebelled against me. They followed such a one whose wealth and children increase him not, but in loss.

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

وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكۡرࣰا كُبَّارࣰا ۝٢٢

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And they planned a magnificent plan.

wamakarū makran kubbāra

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And they said: You will by no means forsake your gods, nor will you forsake Wadd nor Suwa nor Yaghuth nor Yauq nor Nasr.

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

وَقَدۡ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِیرࣰاۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِینَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلࣰا ۝٢٤

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And, truly, they are going much astray. And increase Thou not ones who are unjust but in causing them to go astray.

waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalāla

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Because of their transgressions, they were drowned and were caused to enter into a fire. And they find not for themselves any helpers other than God.

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

And Noah said: My Lord! Allow not even one on the earth from among the ones who are ungrateful!

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

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Truly, Thou, if Thou wert to allow them, they would cause Thy servants to go astray and they will but procreate immoral ingrates.

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

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

My Lord! Forgive me and ones who are my parents and whoever entered my house as one who believes—the males, ones who believe and the females, ones who believe and increase not the ones who are unjust, but 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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