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you will not be able to prevent it. My counsel something about which you have no knowledge.
will not benefit you, for all my desire to counsel I admonish you lest you should be among the ig-
you, if Allah desires to lead you into error. He is norant.’ He said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You
your Lord and you will return to Him.’ Or do they from asking You for anything about which I have
say, ‘He has invented it’? Say: ‘If I have invented no knowledge. If You do not forgive me and have
it the crime will be laid at my door, but I am in- mercy on me, I will be among the lost.’ It was
nocent of the crimes which you commit.’ It was said, ‘Nuh, descend with peace from Us and
revealed to Nuh: ‘None of your people are going with blessings on you and on the nations which
to believe except for those who already believe, will issue from those who are with you. But there
so do not be distressed at what they do. Build the are nations to whom we will give enjoyment and
Ark under Our supervision and as We reveal and then a painful punishment from Us will afflict
do not address Me concerning the wrongdoers. them.’ That is some of the news of the Unseen
They shall be drowned.’ He began to build the which We reveal to you. Neither you nor your
Ark and every time some nobles of his people people knew it before this time. So be steadfast.
passed him by, they ridiculed him. He said, The best end result is for those who guard against
‘Though you ridicule us now, we will certainly evil. (11:25-49)
ridicule you as you do us. You will soon know (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘My people! Do not let your
who will receive a punishment which disgraces breach with me provoke you into doing wrong so
him and find unleashed against himself an ever- that the same thing happens to you as happened
lasting punishment.’ So when Our command to the people of Nuh and the people of Hud and
came, and water bubbled up from the earth, We the people of Salih; and the people of Lut are not
said, ‘Load into it a pair of every species, and far distant from you.’ (11:89)
your family–except for those against whom the Has news not reached you of those who came
Word was preordained–and all who believe.’ But before you, the peoples of Nuh and ‘Ad and
those who believed with him were only few. He Thamud, and those who came after them who
said, ‘Embark in it. In the name of Allah be its are known to no one but Allah? Their Messengers
voyage and its landing! Truly my Lord is Ever- came to them with Clear Signs, but they put their
Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ It sailed with them hands to their mouths, saying, ‘We reject what
through mountainous waves, and Nuh called out you have been sent with. We have grave doubts
to his son, who had kept himself apart, ‘My son! about what you are calling us to.’ (14:9)
Come on board with us. Do not stay with the dis- Descendants of those We carried with Nuh. He
believers!’ He said, ‘I will take refuge on a moun- was a grateful servant. (17:3)
tain; It will protect me from the flood.’ He said, How many generations We destroyed after Nuh!
‘There is no protection from Allah’s command Your Lord is well able to be aware of and see the
today except for those He has mercy on.’ The wrong actions of His servants! (17:17)
waves surged in between them and he was Those are some of the Prophets Allah has
among the drowned. It was said, ‘Earth, swallow blessed, from the descendants of Adam and from
up your water!’ and, ‘Heaven, hold back your those We carried with Nuh, and from the descen-
rain!’ And the water subsided and the affair was dants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
concluded and the Ark came to land on al-Judi. guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-
And it was said, ‘Away with the people of the Merciful were recited to them they fell on their
wrongdoers!’ Nuh called out to his Lord and faces, weeping, in prostration. (19:58)
said, ‘My Lord, my son is one of my family and And Nuh, when he called out before and We re-
Your promise is surely the truth and You are the sponded to him and rescued him and his family
Justest of Judges.’ He said, ‘Nuh, he is definitely from the terrible plight. We helped him against
not of your family. He is someone whose action the people who rejected Our Signs. They were
was not righteous. Do not, therefore, ask Me for an evil people and We drowned them, every
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