Surah Nuh, Ayah 21-28 — Word by Word
نوح
Noah
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
qāla nūḥun rabbi innahum ʿaṣawnī wa-ittabaʿū man lam yazid'hu māluhu wawaladuhu illā khasāran
Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.
wamakarū makran kubbāran
And they conspired an immense conspiracy
waqālū lā tadharunna ālihatakum walā tadharunna waddan walā suwāʿan walā yaghūtha wayaʿūqa wanasran
And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwāʿ or Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr.'
waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalālan
And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."
mimmā khaṭīātihim ugh'riqū fa-ud'khilū nāran falam yajidū lahum min dūni l-lahi anṣāran
Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allāh [any] helpers.
waqāla nūḥun rabbi lā tadhar ʿalā l-arḍi mina l-kāfirīna dayyāran
And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant.
innaka in tadharhum yuḍillū ʿibādaka walā yalidū illā fājiran kaffāran
Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.
rabbi igh'fir lī waliwālidayya waliman dakhala baytiya mu'minan walil'mu'minīna wal-mu'mināti walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā tabāran
My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."