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....The
balance of water changed, as well. There was no rain. Streams
and wells dried up. There was a terrible drought and famine.
....Allah Almighty, the Lord of all
the universes, dried up all the water in the land and stored it
in the air. The Flood was soon to follow.
....So Allah Almighty said:
...."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." (Hud 40)
....Allah Almighty ordered Hazrat
Noah to put two of all living things, i.e., a pair, and his family,
except his wife and his son, Kanan, when the bakery, where Hazrat
Eve baked bread, in Noah's house overflowed.
....The ark was nearly finished.
The sky turned dark and the black clouds covered the sky. There
was great tension in the Earth; it was if something was about
to blow up.
....The people began to run away
and started praying and begging before their statues.
....However, it was too late. The
preordained day arrived and the countdown for the tribe of Noah
to destroy began. When the hot water began to miraculously gush
forth from the oven in Noah's house, Hazrat Noah said:
...."Embark in it, in the name
of Allah be its sailing and its anchoring; most surely my Lord
is Forgiving, Merciful." (Hud, 41)
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