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We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them."
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He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you.
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"To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me.
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"He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew."
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He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day.
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"But my invitation only increased their aversion.
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"Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant.
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"Then I invited them publicly.
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"Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately.
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"I said, 'Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving.
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"'He will then shower you generously with rain.
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"'And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.'"
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Why should you not strive to reverence GOD?
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He is the One who created you in stages.
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Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers?
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He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp.
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And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants.
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Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out.
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GOD made the earth habitable for you.
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That you may build roads therein.
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Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children.
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"They schemed terrible schemes.
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"They said, 'Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa', Yaghouth, Ya'ooq, and Nasr.'
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"They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss."
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Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD.
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Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth.
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"For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers.
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"My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation."