Surah Nuh

We sent Noah to his people, saying, 'Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement.'

He said, 'O my people, I am unto you a clear warner,

saying, "Serve God, and fear Him, and obey you me,

and He will forgive you your sins, and defer you to a stated term; God's term, when it comes, cannot be deferred, did you but know."'

He said; 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day,

but my calling has only increased them in flight.

And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud.

Then indeed I called them openly;

then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly,

and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving,

and He will loose heaven upon you in torrents

and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers.

What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God,

seeing He created you by stages?

Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another,