94. Here that portion of the history of prophets is being presented which shows that Allah has been sending His messengers for the guidance of mankind. These prophets had placed the reasoning about Allah before their communities. when their peoples refused to accept their prophethood and were not prepared to follow their teachings and messages which they were presenting, Allah’s law of retribution came into action and He punished these rejectors in such a way that they were removed entirely from the face of the earth. However, their names have remained in the pages of history as a moral lesson for others.

95. prophet Adam had left his children as inheritors of the guidance which he had received from Allah. When his race increased and took the form of human, society, it gradually deviated from the path of guidance on which prophet Adam had left them. As a result, great misguidance crept into their practice and belief. To rescue them from this misguidance and to open for them the path of guidance, Allah sent prophet Nooh (Noah) as His messenger to these people. In other words, prophet Nooh is the first prophet after prophet Adam, whom Allah sent to the human population as His messenger.

The time of prophet Nooh might have been some four to five thousand years before Christ, (exact knowledge is with Allah only). The native country of the community of prophet Nooh was between the rivers Dajla and the Euphrates, that is, in the northern region of Iraq, around the town of Mosul.

96. Here the word ‘qaum’ (people) has been used in the simple meaning of mankind.

97. The practice of idolatry had taken root in the community of prophet Nooh. Behind this practice, was the concept that there are other beings who also fulfil man’s needs, besides Allah, and therefore, they should also be worshipped. prophet Nooh tried to guide them away from this wrong practice and presented before them the dawah of monotheism.

98. Dreadful Day (Yaum-i-Azeem) means the day when the punishment will descend down on the guilty.

99.The nobles or the prominent people of his community were in the forefront in opposing the dawah of the prophet Nooh. In their eyes, the disbelief of prophet Nooh in the idols was a sacrilege, which they deemed as misguidance.

400 Long . 450 Long . Arminia Mount Ararat Tabrez

400 Lat. 350 Lat. The Native Land of the Community of Prophet Nooh (Noah). In Northern Iraq near river Dajla N0 Scale 100 km. 350 Lat.

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100. prophets have a special means of attaining knowledge; which ordinary mortals do not have. Therefore, the realities of the unseen which are made manifest to him are conveyed by him to the people, and since this knowledge or information is supported by reasoning and argument, and backed by the unblemished character and truthfulness of the prophet, there is no plausible reason or room for doubting the word of the prophet, and through them the convincing proof of Allah’s message is conveyed to the people.

101. About the prophethood of Nooh, his community was expressing doubts as to how a man like them, from their own community, could be made a messenger from Allah. A similar kind of doubt was being expressed by the community of prophet Muhammad (Sallal Lahu Alaihi Wasallam), which shows that such an objection is not new, but thousands of years old, and is being raised since the time of prophet Nooh.

102. In this is hidden the reply to their objection, that the purpose of sending a prophet is not to manifest any wonder or miracle, but to warn the ignorant people of the adverse consequences of wrong beliefs and practices, and for accomplishing this task, the most suitable and wise thing is to send man as a messenger of Allah.

103. This was decisive punishment, which proved the truthfulness of prophet Nooh; and to be safe from this punishment, which was to come in the form of a flood, he had prepared a big Ark quite in advance. Besides only those people were overtaken by this punishment who had rejected the prophethood of Nooh. No person who believed in the dawah presented by him was overtaken by the punishment. If it were a catastrophe like any ordinary catastrophe which takes place on this earth every now and then, then neither prophet Nooh would have known of its occurrence beforehand, nor only infidels could have been its victims, because in the ordinary catastrophe Momin (faithful) as well as infidels – all – are struck. But the punishment that overtakes a community after its prophet had convincingly conveyed Allah’s message to that community, is of a different nature. Therefore, to deem it like ordinary accidents or catastrophe is unrealistic.

104. That is: The eyes of their heart were blind, or that they could not think properly.