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071.002 He said: "O my People! I am to you a Warner, clear and open:
071.003 "That ye should worship God, fear Him and obey me:
071.004 "So He may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a stated Term: for when the Term given by God is
accomplished, it cannot be put forward: if ye only knew."
071.005 He said: "O my Lord! I have called to my People night and day:
071.006 "But my call only increases (their) flight (from the Right).
071.007 "And every time I have called to them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they have (only) thrust their fingers
into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, grown obstinate, and given themselves up to arrogance.
071.008 "So I have called to them aloud;
071.009 "Further I have spoken to them in public and secretly in private,
071.010 "Saying, 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft-Forgiving;
071.011 "'He will send rain to you in abundance;
071.012 "'Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing
water).
071.013 "'What is the matter with you, that ye place not your hope for kindness and long-suffering in God,-
071.014 "'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?
071.015 "'See ye not how God has created the seven heavens one above another,
071.016 "'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?
071.017 "'And God has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),
071.018 "'And in the End He will return you into the (earth), and raise you forth (again at the Resurrection)?
071.019 "'And God has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out),
071.020 "'That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads.'"
071.021 Noah said: "O my Lord! They have disobeyed me, but they follow (men) whose wealth and children give them
no increase but only Loss.
071.022 "And they have devised a tremendous Plot.
071.023 "And they have said (to each other), 'Abandon not your gods: Abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', neither Yaguth
nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr';-
071.024 "They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong- doers but in straying (from their
mark)."
071.025 Because of their sins they were drowned (in the flood), and were made to enter the Fire (of Punishment): and
they found- in lieu of God- none to help them.
071.026 And Noah, said: "O my Lord! Leave not of the Unbelievers, a single one on earth!
071.027 "For, if Thou dost leave (any of) them, they will but mislead Thy devotees, and they will breed none but wicked
ungrateful ones.
071.028 "O my Lord! Forgive me, my parents, all who enter my house in Faith, and (all) believing men and believing
women: and to the wrong-doers grant Thou no increase but in perdition!"
THE JINN, SPRITES, CHAPTER NO. 072
072.001 Say: It has been revealed to me that a company of Jinns listened (to the Qur'an). They said, 'We have really
heard a wonderful Recital!
072.002 'It gives guidance to the Right, and we have believed therein: we shall not join (in worship) any (gods) with
our Lord.
072.003 'And Exalted is the Majesty of our Lord: He has taken neither a wife nor a son.
072.004 'There were some foolish ones among us, who used to utter extravagant lies against God;
072.005 'But we do think that no man or spirit should say aught that untrue against God.
072.006 'True, there were persons among mankind who took shelter with persons among the Jinns, but they increased
them in folly.
072.007 'And they (came to) think as ye thought, that God would not raise up any one (to Judgment).
072.008 'And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.