Relate to them the story1 of Noah. Behold! he said to his people: “O my people, if it be hard on your (mind) that I should stay (with you) and commemorate the signs of God,- yet I put my trust in God. Get ye then an agreement about your plan and among your partners, so your plan2 be on to you dark and dubious. Then pass your sentence on me, and give me no respite.