ANGEL and MAN
THE TRIBE OF NOAH
 

....THE TRIBE OF NOAH
....From the time of Hazrat Adam to that of Hazrat Noah, except for a few individual acts, there were no sins that were committed throughout the society and no pervert beliefs were followed.
....The people who lived in this most natural and calmest of times were healthy, strong, and peaceful. The worshipping of idols and statutes started in the tribe of Noah. The people of Noah made statues of Wedd, Suwa, Yeghus, Yauk, and Nasr in order to commemorate them. Allah Almighty sent Noah in order to guide them to the truth. He informs us:
...."Certainly We sent Noah to his people, so he said: O my people! Serve Allah, you have no god other than Him; surely I fear for you the chastisement of a grievous day." (Araf, 59)
....Hazrat Noah told his people to worship Allah Almighty alone and not to bow down before any other gods, like the statutes they idolized:
...."The chiefs of his people said: Most surely we see you in clear error." (Araf, 60)
....When those who idolized these man-made statutes, and thus committing a great error, accused Noah of being in error;

.."He (Hazrat Noah) said: O my people! There is no error in me, but I am an messenger from the Lord of the worlds."
(Araf, 61)
....Noah was one of the longest-lived prophets, and he was one of the prophets that underwent the most oppression and mistreatment. He worked hard and continuously to promulgate his religion, struggling like a helpless mother. He called openly to his people to believe this religion and he called upon some honored people at nights to do the same.
....Realizing that Hazrat Noah would not stop his efforts or warnings, his perverted tribe replied to him as follows:
...."O Noah! Indeed you have disputed with us and lengthened dispute with us, therefore bring to us what you threaten us with, if you are of the truthful ones." (Hud, 32)
....Openly challenging Hazrat Noah and Allah Almighty, the tribe of Noah said, "Bring us that which you threaten us with." That angered Allah Almighty. He said to Hazrat Noah:
...."Build the ship under Our eyes and by Our inspiration, and speak not unto Me on behalf of those who do wrong. Lo! they will be drowned." (Hud, 37)
....Upon this order, Hazrat Noah abandoned his calling people to the religion and began to build an ark. Each time his disbelieving tribe passed by Noah building the ark, they ridiculed him and called him crazy. Meanwhile, the balances in nature began to deteriorate rapidly. First, the temperatures began to change, with the weather growing ever hotter. The Earth turned into a hell because of the heat. No plant survived. ..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)

....Hazrat Noah hurried to open the ark and summoned first the animals, then his family, except his son and wife, and all the believers.
....The water gushed up from the ground as well as falling down from the sky; this was the will of Allah Almighty.
....While the son and wife of Hazrat Noah were washed away and drowned, like all the other unbelievers, the heavy ark remained afloat in the great flood by the will of Allah Almighty.
....Nobody knew where they were going or when they would stop.
....When the time preordained by Allah Almighty, arrived:
...."And it was said: O Earth, swallow down your water, and O cloud, clear away; and the water was made to abate and the affair was decided, and the ark rested on the Judi." (Hud, 44)
....After a long and stressful journey, the ark came to rest on Mount Al-Judi.
....Hazrat Noah and the believers landed, prostrated before Allah and prayed with thankfulness.