Noah

 


Noah



Noah, peace be upon him, was the first of God's messengers who were sent to people as a mercy to them and ambassadors of goodness, calling for pure monotheism, commanding worship, and forbidding polytheism and abominations, both visible and invisible, and Noah, peace be upon him, spent a thousand years but fifty years calling his people, promising them paradise and happiness in their lives if they believed. Noah, peace be upon him, was one of the first of the apostles, and in his time, disbelief was common and widespread, and his people were famous for worshipping idols, exaggerating and persisting in wickedness, injustice, and disobedience.

In al-Nawawi's al-Tahdhib: Noah was the longest-lived of the prophets, and it is said that he was the longest-lived of all people, and he was, according to what has been said, the first one to whom the laws were enacted, and the first prophet to warn against polytheism, and his nation was destroyed, and Ibn Kathir says: The truth is that Adam - peace be upon him - was a messenger who was sent to his wife and then to his sons, and his law included warning against polytheism: Noah is said to be the elder of the messengers, because he was the longest-lived, and Adam was the second.

Ibn Kathir said: Noah, peace be upon him, was sent by Allah when idols and idolaters were worshipped, and people began to go astray and disbelieve, so Allah sent him as a mercy to the people, so he was the first messenger sent to the people of the earth, as the people of the parking lot say to him on the Day of Resurrection, and his people were called the Banu Rasib.

Between his birth and the death of Adam, there were ten centuries, as stated by Abu Hatim ibn Habban in his Sahih: Muhammad ibn 'Umar ibn Yusuf, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Zanjawiya, Abu Tawbah, Mu'awiya ibn Salam, from his brother Zaid ibn Salam, I heard Abu Salam, I heard Abu Umamah, “A man said: 'O Messenger of Allah, was Adam a prophet? Yes. He spoke. He said: How many centuries were between him and Noah?



In the life of the Prophet Noah, peace be upon him, a new history began after the incident of the Flood, about which the Holy Qur'an has clearly narrated in a way that eliminates the doubt and uncertainty that occurred in other heavenly books. God mentioned the story of Noah, peace be upon him, what was from his people, the punishment inflicted on those who disbelieved in him by the Flood, and how He saved him and his shipmates in many places of His dear Book in Al-A'raf, Yunus, Hud, Prophets, Believers, Sha'ar, Ankabut, Safat and Approaching. And he revealed a whole surah, which is the surah of Noah.
He said in Surat al-A'raf: {We sent Noah to his people and he said, O people, worship Allah, there is no other god for you, I fear for you the torment of a great day. The leaders of his people said, we see you in a clear delusion. He said, O people, I am not deluded, but I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds, I convey to you the messages of my Lord and advise you and I know from God what you do not know. Should you wonder that a male from your Lord came to you on one of you to warn you and fear and may you have mercy, they disbelieved him and we saved him and those with him in the Ark and drowned those who lied about our signs, they were blind people} [Al-Araf: 59]

This includes the saying: “And how many of the villages we destroyed after Noah, and your Lord is sufficiently aware of the sins of His servants.” [Al-Israa: 17]

Ibn Ashur said: He made the time of Noah the beginning of the stories of the nations because he was the first messenger, and considered the stories after him because the time of Noah became interrupted due to the rebuilding of the earth after the flood, and because the torment that befell his people was a terrible torment, namely the drowning that surrounded the world.

Al-Zahili said in the explanation of the verse: It indicates that the centuries that passed between Adam and Noah were on Islam, Ibn Abbas said: Between Adam and Noah there were ten centuries, all of them on Islam.

In summary, what happened between the Prophet Noah (peace be upon him) and his people, taken from the Book and the authentic Sunnah, is that the deviation began at the time of Noah (peace be upon him).