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.

ثُمَّ يُعيدُكُم فيها وَيُخرِجُكُم إِخراجًا

Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

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.

وَقَد أَضَلّوا كَثيرًا ۖ وَلا تَزِدِ الظّالِمينَ إِلّا ضَلالًا

And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."