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One of the messengers with the firm will: Noah [PBUH]

His name [PBUH] was Abdal Ghaffar and because people used to see him weeping, they called him Noah [means in Arabic: the one who weeps a lot]. It was said also that Noah means the one who cries with a voice, as he feared Allah Almighty so much. He had so much fear of Allah that he did not have any home to live in. He live in the open for nine hundred and fifty years. When he was asked: You had the longest life among all prophets, so what did you do in this worldly life: He said: "As if it was a home with two doors. I entered from one door, and I left from the other".

It was said in the reason of his crying that he saw a dog with four eyes, and he said: "This is an awful dog". The dog replied: "Oh Abdel-Ghaffar! Do you criticize the sculpture or the sculptor?! If you criticize the sculpture, then if it was for me, I would not want to be a dog. And if you criticize the creator, he never suffers any shame as he is doing whatever He wills". So Noah [PBUH] used to weep and cry whenever he remembers that. 

It was narrated that when Noah [PBUH] reached four hundred and eighty years, Gabriel [PBUH], the messenger angle, came to him. Noah [PBUH] asked: "Who are you glorious man?" Gabriel [PBUH] replied: "I am the messenger of the Lord of the whole world and I came to you with a message from him. Allah is sending you to your people". Allah said in the Qur'an [Lo! We sent Noah unto his people (saying): Warn thy people there come on them a painful chastisement] Noah 71:1. Gabriel told him to go to Allah's enemy Darmasheil son of Fomayel son of Gieg son of Qabiel son of Adam. Darmasheil was a titan and self-willed. He and his people were worshipping the five idols that was mentioned in the Holy Qur'an: Wadd, Suwa’, Yaghuth, Ya’uq and Nasr. Those idols had servants who serve them day and night. There was a feast for those idols every year and people used to gather for it, setup fire around those idols, danced, drunk wine and committed adultery in public. Noah [PBUH] went to them on that day, stood up on a high hill and raised his eyes towards the sky asking Allah to give him victory over them. Then he shouted, as loud as he could, saying: "Oh People! I am a messenger from Allah, the Lord of all worlds, and I invite you to worship Him and leave the worship of those idols". When he shouted like that, his voice reached the east and the west, the people got scared and the king Darmashiel fell unconscious. When Darmashiel waked up, he asked the people around him about what they had heard. They answered: That was the voice of a man called Noah, and he is crazy with something wrong with his mind. The king told them to bring him.

The assistants of the king brought Noah [PBUH] to the king, who asked him: Who are you? Noah [PBUH] replied: "I am Noah, the messenger of the Lord of all worlds. I have come with the message to believe in Allah alone and leave the worship of those idols". The king felt the greatness of Noah [PBUH], and feared him, so he replied: "If you are possessed, we can cure you. If you are poor, we can support you and if you have debts, we can pay it for you", but Noah [PBUH] said: "I am not possessed, poor, nor have debts. But I am the messenger of the Lord of all worlds". The king got angry and said: "If it wasn't a festival day, I would have killed you the worst kill".

Then Noah [PBUH] used to come out every day to the people and call on them: O, people! worship Allah. You do not have another God but Him alone with no partner. Then they used to come to him and beat him with sticks and stones until he becomes unconscious. Then they used to drag him to the garbage place and throw him over it. When he wakes up, he used to wipe his face of the blood, washes up, prays, and asks Allah to forgive his people because they don't know. He kept on doing that for almost three hundred years.

Time passed and Darmasheil died, his son became the new king and he was worse than his father. Noah kept on his call and the people kept on their rejection. So every time they hear the voice of Noah [PBUH], they used to put their fingers in their ears, then he would point to them with his finger with a sign to mean that there is only one god, but then they would cover their faces with their clothes. In this context, Allah Almighty said: [And lo! whenever I call unto them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments and persist and magnify themselves in pride] Noah 71:7.

The king died and his son was crowned but he was worst than his father and grand father. Some day while Noah [PBUH] was advising his people, he met a group of people and among them there was a little child carried by his father. They kept on insulting Noah [PBUH] and beating him, and then the child asked his father what was wrong with that man (he meant Noah) and his father told him his story. The child advised his father to cut Noah's tongue. At this moment, Noah [PBUH] became convinced that there was no way to make those people believe in god, so he asked Allah: [And Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers upon the earth. If Thou should leave them, they will mislead Your slaves and will beget none save profligates disbelievers] Noah 71:26-27. Then, Allah inspired him to make an ark. but he wondered: What is an ark? He was told that it is a house that runs on the face of the water. It was said that Allah told him to to plant the trees for the teak or ebony wood, so he planted it and waited until it became trees. Then Allah ordered him to make the ark. Noah wondered how to make it! Allah sent him Gabriel [PBUH] to teach him how. So he was making boards from the trees, then sticking them together and nailing it with nails of iron. People were making fun of him and telling him: You left your prophecy and turned into a carpenter. Those people tried to burn the ship, but it did not. They used it to defecate as a means of hurting and harming Noah [PBUH]. They kept on that for a long time. Noah complained to Allah, so He authorized the scabies and the itch upon them. So they used to scratch their skins until their blood flows and they found no cure for that. One day, one of them was on the ship to defecate when he stumbled and fell in the dirt compiled their, and when he got out and took a shower, he found out that he was cured. So he told the people. Then they hurried up to the ship to cover themselves with the dirt to get cured. Then the ship became clean again. So Allah made them clean their dirt with their bodies.

When the ark was built, Allah Almighty told Noah [PBUH] to load on it with two of every kind, a pair (male and female) and his own family. Noah [PBUH] had 4 sons and his wife was named (Elissa). that is why the sailors until now say "Hobba-elissa" as if they are calling on her to to come to their ship, as she refused to get on the ark. Allah Almighty condemned her and her son to drown.

Noah [PBUH] got on the ship with his three sons and other four men. Three of the four men had a daughter each, the forth one did not have children. Noah [PBUH] called on his forth son - the son of Elissa - to get on the ark, Allah said: [and Noah cried unto his son: O my son! Come ride with us, and be not with the disbelievers] Hud 11:42. but he refused, Allah said: [He said: I shall betake me to some mountain that will save me from the water] Hud 11:43. Noah [PBUH] replied: [This day there is none that saveth from the commandment of Allah save him on whom He hath had mercy] Hud 11:43. Allah Almighty said to Noah [PBUH]: [Lo! He is not of thy household; lo! He is of evil conduct] Hud 11:46.

What does (evil conduct) means? And what happened on the ark? This is to be continued…

Edited by Ahmed Abbas

Translated by Ahmed