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Surah Nuh, Verse 1

سورة نوح، الآية ١

71:1 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 570 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 71:1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ أَنْ أَنذِرْ قَوْمَكَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ۝١

Transliteration

innā arsalnā nūḥan ilā qawmihi an andhir qawmaka min qabli an yatiyahum ʿadhābun alīmun

Translation

Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."

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Verse 1 of Surah Nuh (71:1), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 570 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Indeed, I sent Noah to his people, inviting them so that he may warn them before a painful punishment afflicts them due to their state of ascribing partners to Allah.

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Other translations of verse 1

Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, “Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment.”

Verily, We sent Nûh (Noah) to his people (saying): "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful torment."

Lo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people ere the painful doom come unto them.

We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty."

Surely We sent Nuh to his people, saying: Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement.

Surely We sent Nuh to his people (saying), "Warn your people even before there comes up to them a painful torment."

Verse 1 word by word

  1. إِنَّآ innā Indeed, We
  2. أَرْسَلْنَا arsalnā [We] sent ر س ل
  3. نُوحًا nūḥan Nuh
  4. إِلَىٰ ilā to
  5. قَوْمِهِۦٓ qawmihi his people ق و م
  6. أَنْ an that
  7. أَنذِرْ andhir Warn ن ذ ر
  8. قَوْمَكَ qawmaka your people ق و م
  9. مِن min from
  10. قَبْلِ qabli before ق ب ل
  11. أَن an [that]
  12. يَأْتِيَهُمْ yatiyahum comes to them أ ت ي
  13. عَذَابٌ ʿadhābun a punishment ع ذ ب
  14. أَلِيمٌ alīmun painful أ ل م

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  • Hud 11:25

    وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦٓ إِنِّى لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ

    And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Indeed, I am to you a clear warner

  • Al-A’raf 7:59

    لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ فَقَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُۥٓ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ

    We had certainly sent Noah to his people, and he said, "O my people, worship Allāh; you have no deity other than Him. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous Day."

  • Al-Mu’minun 23:23

    وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ فَقَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُۥٓ أَفَلَا تَتَّقُونَ

    And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, and he said, "O my people, worship Allāh; you have no deity other than Him; then will you not fear Him?"

  • Al-’Ankabut 29:14

    وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمْ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمْسِينَ عَامًا فَأَخَذَهُمُ ٱلطُّوفَانُ وَهُمْ ظَٰلِمُونَ

    And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers.

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