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insolent pride. I called out loud to them, and appealed to them in
public and in private. “Seek forgiveness of your Lord,” I said. “He is
ever ready to forgive you. He sends down for you abundant water
from the sky and bestows upon you wealth and children. He provides
you with gardens and rivers. Why do you deny the greatness of Allah
when He has made you in stages? Can you not see how He created the
seven heavens one above the other, placing in them the moon as a light
and the sun as a lantern? Allah has brought you forth from the earth
like a plant, and to the earth He will restore you. Then He will bring
you back afresh. He has made the earth a vast expanse for you, so that
youmaywalk in its spacious paths.” '
Nuh said: 'Lord, my people have disobeyed me and followed those
whose wealth and offspring only hastened their perdition. They have
devised an outrageous plot, and said: “Do not renounce your gods. Do
not forsake Wadd or Sowa' or Yaghuth or Ya'uq or Nasr.” They have
led numerous men astray. You surely drive the wrongdoers to further
error.'
And because of their sins they were overwhelmed by the Flood and
cast into the Fire. They found none to help thembesidesAllah.
And Nuh said: 'Lord, do not leave a single unbeliever in the land. If
You spare them they will mislead Your servants and beget none but
sinners and unbelievers. Forgive me, Lord, and forgive my parents
and every true believer who seeks refuge in my house. Forgive all the
faithful, men and women, and hasten the destruction of the
wrongdoers.'
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THE QURAN