Surely We sent Nuh to his people, saying: Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement.

He said: O my people! Surely I am a plain warner to you:

That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me:

He will forgive you some of your faults and grant you a delay to an appointed term; surely the term of Allah when it comes is not postponed; did you but know!

He said: O my Lord! surely I have called my people by night and by day!

But my call has only made them flee the more:

And whenever I have called them that Thou mayest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, cover themselves with their garments, and persist and are puffed up with pride:

Then surely I called to them aloud:

Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret:

Then I said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving:

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