QURAN CHAPTER - 71
Nuh - Noah
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 2
Ayat - 28
Theme - In this surah the story of the Prophet Noah has not been related only for the sake of story telling, but its object is to warn the disbelievers of Makkah.
- Verses: 2-4 briefly explain how he (Prophet Noah) began his mission and what he preached.
- Verses: 5-20 states how he had been trying to bring his people to the right path and how his people had stubbornly opposed him.
- Verses: 21-24 in which he prays to his Lord, saying: "These people have rejected my invitation: they are blindly following their chiefs, who have devised a tremendous plot of deceit and cunning. Time now has come when these people should be deprived of every grace to accept guidance."
- This was not an expression of impatience by the Prophet Noah, but when after having preached his message under extremely trying circumstances for centuries be became utterly disappointed with his people, he formed the opinion that no chance whatever was left of their coming to the right path.
- His this opinion fully conformed to Allah's own decision. Thus, in the verse: 25, it has been said: "The torment of Allah descended on those people because of their misdeeds."
- In the concluding verse, the Prophet Noah's supplication that he made to his Lord, right at the time the torment descended, has been recorded.
- In it he prays for his own and for all the believers forgiveness, and makes a submission to Allah to the effect: "Do not leave any of the disbelievers alive on the earth, for they have become utterly devoid of every good: they will not beget any but disbelieving and wicked descendants."
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