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He said, "O my people, indeed I am a clear warner to you,
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Serve God, fear Him and obey me.
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He will forgive your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, when the term [set by] God comes, it will not be delayed, if you only knew."
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He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to You] night and day.
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But my invitation did not increase them in [anything] except flight.
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And indeed, every time I invited them so that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance.
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Then I invited them publicly.
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Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly
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And said, 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord. Indeed, He is the Perpetual Forgiver.
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He will send [water from] the heaven upon you in showers
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And give you an increase in wealth and children and provide gardens for you and provide rivers for you.
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What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute [due] grandeur to God
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While He has created you in stages?
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Do you not see how God has created seven heavens, one above another
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And made the moon a light therein and made the sun a burning lamp?
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And God has caused you to grow from the earth as plants.
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Then He will return you into it and extract you [in another] extraction.
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And God has made the earth as an outspread [carpet] for you *Isaiah 42:5, *Isaiah 44:24
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So that you may go along wide paths therein.'"
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Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him in [anything] except loss.
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And they conspired an immense conspiracy. *Wisdom of Solomon 10:4 - 5
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And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.'
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And they have already misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers in [anything] except error."
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Because of their sins, they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they did not find [any] helpers for themselves besides God.
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And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave an inhabitant upon the earth from among the disbelievers.
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Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget [anything] except wicked disbelievers.