[11:20]

Such will not escape in the earth, nor have they any protecting friends beside Allah. For them the torment will be double. They could not bear to hear, and they used not to see.

[11:21]

Such are they who have lost their souls, and that which they used to invent hath failed them.

[11:22]

Assuredly in the Hereafter they will be the greatest losers.

[11:23]

Lo! those who believe and do good works and humble themselves before their Lord: such are rightful owners of the Garden; they will abide therein.

[11:24]

The similitude of the two parties is as the blind and the deaf and the seer and the hearer. Are they equal in similitude ? Will ye not then be admonished ?

[11:25]

And We sent Noah unto his folk (and he said): Lo! I am a plain warner unto you.

[11:26]

That ye serve none, save Allah. Lo! I fear for you the retribution of a painful Day.

[11:27]

The chieftains of his folk, who disbelieved, said: We see thee but a mortal like us, and we see not that any follow thee save the most abject among us, without reflection. We behold in you no merit above us - nay, we deem you liars.

[11:28]

He said: O my people! Bethink you, if I rely on a clear proof from my Lord and there hath come unto me a mercy from His presence, and it hath been made obscure to you, can we compel you to accept it when ye are averse thereto ?