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ʾinnā ʾarsalnā nūḥan ʾilā qawmihī ʾan ʾandhir qawmaka min qabli ʾan yaʾtiyahum ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

Indeed We sent Noah to his people, [saying,] ‘Warn your people before a painful punishment overtakes them.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla yā-qawmi ʾinnī lakum nadhīrun mubīnun

He said, ‘O my people! Indeed, I am a manifest warner to you.

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ʾani ʿbudū llāha wa-ttaqūhu wa-ʾaṭīʿūni

Worship Allah and be wary of Him, and obey me,

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yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wa-yuʾakhkhirkum ʾilā ʾajalin musamman ʾinna ʾajala llāhi ʾidhā jāʾa lā yuʾakhkharu law kuntum taʿlamūna

that He may forgive you some of your sins and respite you until a specified time. Indeed when Allah’s [appointed] time comes, it cannot be deferred, if you know.’

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qāla rabbi ʾinnī daʿawtu qawmī laylan wa-nahāran

He said, ‘My Lord! Indeed, I have summoned my people night and day

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fa-lam yazidhum duʿāʾī ʾillā firāran

but my summons only increases their evasion.

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wa-ʾinnī kullamā daʿawtuhum li-taghfira lahum jaʿalū ʾaṣābiʿahum fī ʾādhānihim wa-staghshaw thiyābahum wa-ʾaṣarrū wa-stakbarū stikbāran

Indeed whenever I have summoned them, so that You might forgive them, they would put their fingers into their ears and draw their cloaks over their heads, and they were persistent [in their unfaith], and disdainful in [their] arrogance.

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma ʾinnī daʿawtuhum jihāran

Again I summoned them aloud,

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thumma ʾinnī ʾaʿlantu lahum wa-ʾasrartu lahum ʾisrāran

and again appealed to them publicly and confided with them privately,

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fa-qultu staghfirū rabbakum ʾinnahū kāna ghaffāran

telling [them]: ‘‘Plead to your Lord for forgiveness. Indeed, He is all-forgiving.

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yursili s-samāʾa ʿalaykum midrāran

He will send for you abundant rains from the sky,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yumdidkum bi-ʾamwālin wa-banīna wa-yajʿal lakum jannātin wa-yajʿal lakum ʾanhāran

and aid you with wealth and sons, and provide you with gardens and provide you with streams.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā lakum lā tarjūna li-llāhi waqāran

What is the matter with you that you do not look upon Allah with veneration,

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wa-qad khalaqakum ʾaṭwāran

though He has created you in [various] stages?

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ʾa-lam taraw kayfa khalaqa llāhu sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqan

Have you not seen how Allah has created the seven heavens in layers,

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wa-jaʿala l-qamara fīhinna nūran wa-jaʿala sh-shamsa sirājan

and has made therein the moon for a light and the sun for a lamp?

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wa-llāhu ʾanbatakum mina l-ʾarḍi nabātan

Allah made you grow from the earth, with a [vegetable] growth.

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thumma yuʿīdukum fīhā wa-yukhrijukum ʾikhrājan

Then He makes you return to it, and He will bring you forth [without fail].

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wa-llāhu jaʿala lakumu l-ʾarḍa bisāṭan

Allah has made the earth a vast expanse for you

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li-taslukū minhā subulan fijājan

so that you may travel over its spacious ways.’’ ’

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qāla nūḥun rabbi ʾinnahum ʿaṣawnī wa-ttabaʿū man lam yazidhu māluhū wa-waladuhū ʾillā khasāran

Noah said, ‘My Lord! They have disobeyed me, following someone whose wealth and children only add to his loss,

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wa-makarū makran kubbāran

and they have devised an outrageous plot.

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wa-qālū lā tadharunna ʾālihatakum wa-lā tadharunna waddan wa-lā suwāʿan wa-lā yaghūtha wa-yaʿūqa wa-nasran

They say, ‘‘Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth, Ya‘uq and Nasr,’’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qad ʾaḍallū kathīran wa-lā tazidi ẓ-ẓālimīna ʾillā ḍalālan

and already they have led many astray. Do not increase the wrongdoers in anything but error.’

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mimmā khaṭīʾātihim ʾughriqū fa-ʾudkhilū nāran fa-lam yajidū lahum min dūni llāhi ʾanṣāran

They were drowned because of their iniquities, then made to enter a Fire, and they did not find any helpers for themselves besides Allah.

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wa-qāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā l-ʾarḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyāran

And Noah said, ‘My Lord! ‘Do not leave on the earth any inhabitant from among the faithless.

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ʾinnaka ʾin tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka wa-lā yalidū ʾillā fājiran kaffāran

If You leave them, they will lead astray Your servants, and will beget none except vicious ingrates.

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rabbi ghfir lī wa-li-wālidayya wa-li-man dakhala baytiya muʾminan wa-li-l-muʾminīna wa-l-muʾmināti wa-lā tazidi ẓ-ẓālimīna ʾillā tabāran

My Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and whoever enters my house in faith, and the faithful men and women, and do not increase the wrongdoers in anything but ruin.’

— Ali Quli Qarai