S:  Or do they say:  He has forged it?  Say:  If I have forged it, on me is my guilt, and I am clear of that of which you are guilty.

011.036 Y:  It was revealed to Noah:  “None of thy people will believe except those who have believed already!  So grieve no longer over their (evil) deeds.”

P:  And it was inspired in Noah, (saying):  No-one of thy folk will believe save him who hath believed already.  Be not distressed because of what they do.

S:  And it was revealed to Nuh:  That none of your people will believe except those who have already believed, therefore do not grieve at what they do: 

011.037 Y:  “But construct an Ark under Our eyes and Our inspiration, and address Me no (further) on behalf of those who are in sin:  for they are about to be overwhelmed (in the Flood).”

P:  Build the ship under Our eyes and by Our inspiration, and speak not unto Me on behalf of those who do wrong.  Lo! they will be drowned.

S:  And make the ark before Our eyes and (according to) Our revelation, and do not speak to Me in respect of those who are unjust; surely they shall be drowned.

011.038 Y:  Forthwith he (starts) constructing the Ark:  Every time that the chiefs of his people passed by him, they threw ridicule on him.  He said:  “If ye ridicule us now, we (in our turn) can look down on you with ridicule likewise!”

P:  And he was building the ship, and every time that chieftains of his people passed him, they made mock of him.  He said:  Though ye make mock of Us, yet We mock at you even as ye mock;

S:  And he began to make the ark; and whenever the chiefs from among his people passed by him they laughed at him.  He said:  If you laugh at us, surely we too laugh at you as you laugh (at us).

011.039 Y:  “But soon will ye know who it is on whom will descend a penalty that will cover them with shame,- on whom will be unloosed a penalty lasting:” 

P:  And ye shall know to whom a punishment that will confound him cometh, and upon whom a lasting doom will fall.

S:  So shall you know who it is on whom will come a chastisement which will disgrace him, and on whom will lasting chastisement come down.

011.040 Y:  At length, behold! there came Our command, and the fountains of the earth gushed forth!  We said:  “Embark therein, of each kind two, male and female, and your family — except those against whom the word has already gone forth,- and the Believers.” but only a few believed with him.

P:  (Thus it was) till, when Our commandment came to pass and the oven gushed forth water, We said:  Load therein two of every kind, a pair (the male and female), and thy household, save him against whom the word hath gone forth already, and those who believe.  And but a few were they who believed with him.

S:  Until when Our command came and water came forth from the valley, We said:  Carry in it two of all things, a pair, and your own family—­ except those against whom the word has already gone forth, and those who believe.  And there believed not with him but a few.