ما لَكُم لا تَرجونَ لِلَّهِ وَقارًا

What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur

وَقَد خَلَقَكُم أَطوارًا

While He has created you in stages?

أَلَم تَرَوا كَيفَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ سَبعَ سَماواتٍ طِباقًا

Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers

وَجَعَلَ القَمَرَ فيهِنَّ نورًا وَجَعَلَ الشَّمسَ سِراجًا

And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

وَاللَّهُ أَنبَتَكُم مِنَ الأَرضِ نَباتًا

And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.

وَاللَّهُ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الأَرضَ بِساطًا

And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse

لِتَسلُكوا مِنها سُبُلًا فِجاجًا

That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "

قالَ نوحٌ رَبِّ إِنَّهُم عَصَوني وَاتَّبَعوا مَن لَم يَزِدهُ مالُهُ وَوَلَدُهُ إِلّا خَسارًا

Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.

وَمَكَروا مَكرًا كُبّارًا

And they conspired an immense conspiracy.

وَقالوا لا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُم وَلا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلا سُواعًا وَلا يَغوثَ وَيَعوقَ وَنَسرًا

And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.