Do they say, “This Koran is of his own devising?” Say: On me be my own guilt, if I have devised it, but I am clear of that whereof ye are guilty.

And it was revealed unto Noah. Verily, none of thy people shall believe, save they who have believed already; therefore be not thou grieved at their doings.

But build the Ark under our eye and after our revelation: and plead not with me for the evil doers, for they are to be drowned.

So he built the Ark; and whenever the chiefs of his people passed by they laughed him to scorn:⁶ said he, “Though ye laugh at us, we truly shall laugh at you, even as ye laugh at us; and in the end ye shall know

On whom a punishment shall come that shall shame him, and on whom shall light a lasting punishment.”

Thus was it until our sentence came to pass, and the earth’s surface⁷ boiled up. We said, “Carry into it one pair of every kind, and thy family, except him on whom sentence hath before been passed, and those who have believed.” But there believed not with him except a few.

And he said, “Embark ye therein. In the name of God be its course and its riding at anchor! Truly my Lord is right Gracious, Merciful.”

And the Ark moved on with them amid waves like mountains: and Noah called to his son—for he was apart—“Embark with us, O my child! and be not with the unbelievers.”

He said, “I will betake me to a mountain that shall secure me from the water.” He said, “None shall be secure this day from the decree of God, save him on whom He shall have mercy.” And a wave passed between them, and he was among the drowned.

And it was said, “O Earth! swallow up thy water;” and “cease, O Heaven!” And the water abated, and the decree was fulfilled, and the Ark rested upon Al-Djoudi;⁸ and it was said, “Avaunt! ye tribe of the wicked!”

And Noah called on his Lord and said, “O Lord! verily my son is of my family: and thy promise is true, and thou art the most just of judges.”

He said, “O Noah! verily, he is not of thy family: in this thou actest not aright.⁹ Ask not of me that whereof thou knowest nought: I warn thee that thou become not of the ignorant.

He said, “To thee verily, O my Lord, do I repair lest I ask that of thee wherein I have no knowledge: unless thou forgive me and be merciful to me I shall be one of the lost.

It was said to him, “O Noah! debark with peace from Us, and with blessings on thee and on peoples to be born from those who are with thee; but as for other and unbelieving peoples, we will give them their good things in this world, but hereafter shall a grievous punishment light on them from us.

This is one of the secret Histories: we reveal it unto thee: neither thou nor thy people knew it ere this: be patient thou: verily, there is a prosperous issue to the God-fearing.

And unto Ad we sent their Brother HOUD. He said, “O my people, worship God. You have no God beside Him. Ye only devise a lie.

O my people! I ask of you no recompense for this: my recompense is with Him only who hath made me. Will ye not then understand?