Surah: 71. Nuh

Then indeed I summoned them aloud that is to say at the top of my voice;

He said ‘My Lord I have summoned my people night and day that is to say continuously without interruption

but my summon has only increased their evasion of faith.

And indeed whenever I summoned them so that You might forgive them they put their fingers in their ears in order not to hear what I say and draw their cloaks over themselves they cover their heads with them in order not to catch sight of me and they persist in their disbelief and act […]

Verily We sent Noah to his people saying ‘Warn your people before there come on them — should they not believe — a painful chastisement’ in this world and in the Hereafter.

He said ‘O my people I am indeed a plain warner to you one whose warning is plain

to tell you that you should worship God and fear Him and obey me

that He may forgive you some of your sins min dhunūbikum ‘some of your sins’ min may be taken as extra because submission to God islām expunges everything of sin that was committed previous to it; or it min may be understood as partitive to point out that which is due to those who were […]