بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
Innaaa arsalnaa Noohan ilaa qawmihee an anzir qawmaka min qabli any yaatiyahum 'azaabun aleem
Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."
ہم نے نوحؑ کو ان کی قوم کی طرف بھیجا کہ پیشتر اس کے کہ ان پر درد دینے والا عذاب واقع ہو اپنی قوم کو ہدایت کردو
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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.
قَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
Qaala yaa qawmi innee lakum nazeerum mubeen
He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,
انہوں نے کہا کہ اے قوم! میں تم کو کھلے طور پر نصیحت کرتا ہوں
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He said ‘O my people I am indeed a plain warner to you one whose warning is plain
أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَطِيعُونِ
Ani'udul laaha watta qoohu wa atee'oon
[Saying], 'Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me.
کہ خدا کی عبات کرو اور اس سے ڈرو اور میرا کہا مانو
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to tell you that you should worship God and fear Him and obey me
يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى إِنَّ أَجَلَ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا جَآءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
Yaghfir lakum min zunoobikum wa yu'akhkhirkum ilaaa ajalim musammaa; innaa ajalal laahi izaa jaaa'a laa yu'akhkhar; law kuntum ta'lamoon
Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.' "
وہ تمہارے گناہ بخش دے گا اور (موت کے) وقت مقررہ تک تم کو مہلت عطا کرے گا۔ جب خدا کا مقرر کیا ہوگا وقت آجاتا ہے تو تاخیر نہیں ہوتی۔ کاش تم جانتے ہوتے
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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 already God’s servants and defer you without chastising you until an appointed term the term for death. Indeed when God’s term for your chastisement — should you not believe — comes it cannot be deferred if only you knew’ this you would believe.
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا
Qaala rabbi innee da'awtu qawmee lailanw wa naharaa
He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.
جب لوگوں نے نہ مانا تو (نوحؑ نے) خدا سے عرض کی کہ پروردگار میں اپنی قوم کو رات دن بلاتا رہا
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He said ‘My Lord I have summoned my people night and day that is to say continuously without interruption
فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًا
Falam yazid hum du'aaa 'eee illaa firaaraa
But my invitation increased them not except in flight.
لیکن میرے بلانے سے وہ اور زیادہ گزیر کرتے رہے
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but my summon has only increased their evasion of faith.
وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًا
Wa inee kullamaa da'awtuhum litaghfira lahum ja'alooo asaabi'ahum fee aazaanihim wastaghshaw siyaabahum wa asaarroo wastakbarus tikbaaraa
And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.
جب جب میں نے ان کو بلایا کہ (توبہ کریں اور) تو ان کو معاف فرمائے تو انہوں نے اپنے کانوں میں انگلیاں دے لیں اور کپڑے اوڑھ لئے اور اڑ گئے اور اکڑ بیٹھے
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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 in great arrogance disdaining faith.
ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا
Summa innee da'aw tuhum jihaara
Then I invited them publicly.
پھر میں ان کو کھلے طور پر بھی بلاتا رہا
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Then indeed I summoned them aloud that is to say at the top of my voice;
ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا
Summaa inneee a'lantu lahum wa asrartu lahum israaraa
Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly
اور ظاہر اور پوشیدہ ہر طرح سمجھاتا رہا
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then assuredly I proclaimed to them with my voice and I confided my words to them secretly
فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا
Faqultus taghfiroo Rabakam innahoo kaana Ghaffaaraa
And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver.
اور کہا کہ اپنے پروردگار سے معافی مانگو کہ وہ بڑا معاف کرنے والا ہے
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saying “Ask your Lord for forgiveness from idolatry. Assuredly He is ever Forgiving.
يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا
Yursilis samaaa'a 'alaikum midraaraa
He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers
وہ تم پر آسمان سے لگاتار مینہ برسائے گا
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He will release the heaven the rain — for they had been deprived of it — for you in torrents in plenteous showers
وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَٰرًا
Wa yumdidkum bi am waalinw wa baneena wa yaj'al lakum Jannaatinw wa yaj'al lakum anhaaraa
And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.
اور مال اور بیٹوں سے تمہاری مدد فرمائے گا اور تمہیں باغ عطا کرے گا اور ان میں تمہارے لئے نہریں بہا دے گا
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and furnish you with wealth and sons and assign to you gardens orchards and assign to you running rivers.
مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا
Maa lakum laa tarjoona lillaahi waqaaraa
What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur
تم کو کیا ہوا ہے کہ تم خدا کی عظمت کا اعتقاد نہیں رکھتے
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What is wrong with you that you do not hope for dignity from God that is to say that you do not hope that God will dignify you by becoming believers
وَقَدْ خَلَقَكُمْ أَطْوَارًا
Wa qad khalaqakum at waaraa
While He has created you in stages?
حالانکہ اس نے تم کو طرح طرح (کی حالتوں) کا پیدا کیا ہے
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when verily He created you in stages? atwār is the plural of tūr which means a state. Thus the sperm-drop is one state the blood clot is another state and so on until the creation of the human being is complete reflecting on the manner of his creation necessarily leads to belief in his Creator.
أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا
Alam taraw kaifa khalaqal laahu sab'a samaawaatin tibaaqaa
Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers
کیا تم نے نہیں دیکھا کہ خدا نے سات آسمان کیسے اوپر تلے بنائے ہیں
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Have you not seen how God created seven heavens in layers one on top of the other
وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا
Wa ja'alal qamara feehinna nooranw wa ja'alash shamsa siraajaa
And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?
اور چاند کو ان میں (زمین کا) نور بنایا ہے اور سورج کو چراغ ٹھہرایا ہے
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and made the moon therein — that is to say within their totality but which is effectively true in the case of the heaven of this world — as a light and made the sun as a lamp? as an illuminating lantern more powerful than the light of the moon.
وَٱللَّهُ أَنۢبَتَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ نَبَاتًا
Wallaahu ambatakum minal ardi nabaataa
And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.
اور خدا ہی نے تم کو زمین سے پیدا کیا ہے
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And God has caused you to grow He has created you from the earth for He created your father Adam from it.
ثُمَّ يُعِيدُكُمْ فِيهَا وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ إِخْرَاجًا
Summa yu'eedukum feehaa wa ukhrijukum ikhraajaa
Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.
پھر اسی میں تمہیں لوٹا دے گا اور (اسی سے) تم کو نکال کھڑا کرے گا
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Then He will make you return into it entombed in your graves and bring you forth for the resurrection with a veritable bringing forth.
وَٱللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ بِسَاطًا
Wallaahu ja'ala lakumul arda bisaataa
And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse
اور خدا ہی نے زمین کو تمہارے لئے فرش بنایا
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And God has made the earth a flat open expanse for you
لِّتَسْلُكُوا۟ مِنْهَا سُبُلًا فِجَاجًا
Litaslukoo minhaa subulan fijaajaa
That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "
تاکہ اس کے بڑے بڑے کشادہ رستوں میں چلو پھرو
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so that you may follow throughout it spacious routes.” ’
قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًا
Qaala Noohur Robbi innahum 'asawnee wattaba'oo mal lam yazid hu maaluhoo wa waladuhooo illaa khasaara
Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.
(اس کے بعد) نوح نے عرض کی کہ میرے پروردگار! یہ لوگ میرے کہنے پر نہیں چلے اور ایسوں کے تابع ہوئے جن کو ان کے مال اور اولاد نے نقصان کے سوا کچھ فائدہ نہیں دیا
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Noah said ‘My Lord they have disobeyed me and followed that is the riffraff and the paupers among them have followed those whose wealth and children namely their leaders who have been blessed with such things read wulduhu or waladuhu ‘whose children’ the first of which is said to be the plural of walad similar in pattern to khasab khushb or in fact it is said to be of the same meaning as walad but an alternative form as in the case of bukhl or bakhal ‘niggardliness’ only add to their loss to their insolence and disbelief.
وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا
Wa makaroo makran kubbaaraa
And they conspired an immense conspiracy.
اور وہ بڑی بڑی چالیں چلے
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And they have devised namely the leaders a mighty plot extremely outrageous by denying Noah and harming him as well as his followers
وَقَالُوا۟ لَا تَذَرُنَّ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا
Wa qaaloo laa tazarunna aalihatakum wa laa tazarunna Waddanw wa laa Suwaa'anw wa laa Yaghoosa wa Ya'ooqa wa Nasraa
And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
اور کہنے لگے کہ اپنے معبودوں کو ہرگز نہ چھوڑنا اور ود اور سواع اور یغوث اور یعقوب اور نسر کو کبھی ترک نہ کرنا
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and have said to the riffraff “Do not abandon your gods and do not abandon Wadd read Wadd or Wudd nor Suwā‘ nor Yaghūth and Ya‘ūq and Nasr” — these being the names of their idols.
وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِيرًا وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلَٰلًا
Wa qad adalloo kasee ranw wa laa tazidiz zaalimeena illaa dalaalaa
And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."
(پروردگار) انہوں نے بہت لوگوں کو گمراہ کردیا ہے۔ تو تُو ان کو اور گمراہ کردے
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And they have certainly led astray by these gods many people by commanding them to worship them. And do not O God increase the evildoers except in error!’ wa-lā tazidi’l-zālimīna illā dalālan is a supplement to qad adallū ‘they have certainly led astray’ He Noah invoked God against them when it was revealed to him that ‘None of your people will believe except he who has already believed’ Q. 1136.
مِّمَّا خَطِيٓـَٰٔتِهِمْ أُغْرِقُوا۟ فَأُدْخِلُوا۟ نَارًا فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَنصَارًا
Mimmaa khateee' aatihim ughriqoo fa udkhiloo Naaran falam yajidoo lahum min doonil laahi ansaaraa
Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.
(آخر) وہ اپنے گناہوں کے سبب پہلے غرقاب کردیئے گئے پھر آگ میں ڈال دیئے گئے۔ تو انہوں نے خدا کے سوا کسی کو اپنا مددگار نہ پایا
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Because of mimmā mā indicates a relative clause their iniquities khatāyāhum a variant reading has khatī’ātihim they were drowned by the Flood then made to enter the Fire with which they were punished underwater after drowning. And they did not find for themselves besides that is to say other than God any helpers to protect them against the chastisement.
وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِنَ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ دَيَّارًا
Wa qaala Noohur Rabbi laa tazar 'alal ardi minal kaafireena daiyaaraa
And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.
اور (پھر) نوحؑ نے (یہ) دعا کی کہ میرے پروردگار اگر کسی کافر کو روئے زمین پر بسا نہ رہنے دے
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And Noah said ‘My Lord do not leave from among the disbelievers a single dweller upon the earth dayyār means ‘one who inhabits a dwelling dār’ in other words not one.
إِنَّكَ إِن تَذَرْهُمْ يُضِلُّوا۟ عِبَادَكَ وَلَا يَلِدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا فَاجِرًا كَفَّارًا
Innaka in tazarhum yudil loo 'ibaadaka wa laa yalidooo illaa faajiran kaffaaraa
Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.
اگر تم ان کو رہنے دے گا تو تیرے بندوں کو گمراہ کریں گے اور ان سے جو اولاد ہوگی وہ بھی بدکار اور ناشکر گزار ہوگی
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Assuredly if You leave them they will lead Your servants astray and will beget only disbelieving profligates fājir and kaffār derive respectively from yafjuru and yakfuru he said this on account of the mentioned revelation that had been given to him.
رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ وَلِمَن دَخَلَ بَيْتِىَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا تَبَارًۢا
Rabbigh fir lee wa liwaa lidaiya wa liman dakhala baitiya mu'minanw wa lil mu'mineena wal mu'minaati wa laa tazidiz zaalimeena illaa tabaaraa
My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."
اے میرے پروردگار مجھ کو اور میرے ماں باپ کو اور جو ایمان لا کر میرے گھر میں آئے اس کو اور تمام ایمان والے مردوں اور ایمان والی عورتوں کو معاف فرما اور ظالم لوگوں کے لئے اور زیادہ تباہی بڑھا
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My Lord forgive me and my parents — both of whom were believers — and whoever enters my house my dwelling or my place of worship as a believer and believing men and believing women to the Day of Resurrection and do not increase the evildoers except in ruin’ in destruction — and thus they were destroyed.