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StoryOfProphetNoah, page : 9
death!"
Noah returned home and with sadness of heart cried out to Allah
saying, "My Lord, I have called my people by night and day but my
call has only added and increased them in running away. Each time I
called them so that You might forgive them, they persisted in
thrusting their fingers in their ears and wrapped themselves in their
garments, and were very proud."
Noah continued, "I called them clearly and spoke to them both
publicly and in private saying, 'Ask for forgiveness of your Lord,
surely He is the Forgiver.' My Lord, they have rebelled against me
and followed he whose wealth and children increase him only in loss,
they have devised a mighty plot and said, 'Do not renounce your
gods!'" Then Noah supplicated saying, "Do not increase the harm-
doers except in error Allah!"
Noah returned home and with sadness of heart cried out to Allah
saying, "My Lord, I have called my people by night and day but my
call has only added and increased them in running away. Each time I
called them so that You might forgive them, they persisted in
thrusting their fingers in their ears and wrapped themselves in their
garments, and were very proud."
Noah continued, "I called them clearly and spoke to them both
publicly and in private saying, 'Ask for forgiveness of your Lord,
surely He is the Forgiver.' My Lord, they have rebelled against me
and followed he whose wealth and children increase him only in loss,
they have devised a mighty plot and said, 'Do not renounce your
gods!'" Then Noah supplicated saying, "Do not increase the harm-
doers except in error Allah!"