Hud 41-47
41- HE SAID: “IN THE NAME OF ALLAH IS ITS SAILING ON WATER AND ITS LANDING ON EARTH, FOR MY LORD IS THE MOST FORGIVING AND THE MOST MERCIFUL”.
42- IT SAILED WITH THEM ON BOARD IN WAVES LIKE MOUNTAINS, AND NOAH CALLED HIS SON WHO WAS DISTANT FROM HIM: “MY SON RIDE WITH US AND DO NOT BE OF THE DISBELIEVERS”.
43- HE SAID: WILL SHELTER IN A MOUNTAIN TO PROTECT ME. HE (NOAH) SAID: NO PROTECTION FROM ALLAH’S COMMAND TODAY EXCEPT THOSE ALLAH HAS MERCY UPON” AND THE WAVES CAME BETWEEN THEM, AND HE (THE SON) WAS OF THOSE WHO DROWNED.
44- AND IT WAS SAID: “EARTH SWALLOW YOUR WATER AND O HEAVEN STOP RAINING, AND THE WATER DROPPED, AND COMMAND WAS FULFILLED, AND IT LANDED ON THE JODI AND IT WAS SAID: THE TRANSGRESSING PEOPLE ARE TO PERISH”.
45- AND NOAH CALLED HIS LORD: “MY LORD MY SON IS ONE OF MY FAMILY AND YOUR PROMISE IS TRUE, AND YOU ARE THE MOST JUST OF THE JUDGES”.
46- HE SAID: “O NOAH, HE IS NOT ONE OF YOUR FAMILY AND THIS IS NOT A RIGHTEOUS DEED, DO NOT ASK FOR WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT, I AM ADVISING YOU SO THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE OF THE IGNORANT”.
47- HE SAID: “MY LORD, I SEEK YOUR PROTECTION THAT I SHOULD NEVER ASK ABOUT WHAT I DO NOT KNOW, AND UNLESS YOU FORGIVE ME AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME, I WILL BE OF THE LOSERS”.
The Ark was no ordinary boat. It was a boat Allah commanded one of His great messengers to build, it carried a very special set of passengers, that is all the believers on Earth, including their great messenger, and carrying a special cargo, that is a pair, male and female, of every living creature on earth. It carried the seeds of new righteous life on Earth after all the disbelievers had perished. It sailed with Allah’s blessings, and in His name, and so also was its landing.
It sailed in very turbulent waters, and in waves like mountains. Yet Allah’s care of the Ark, its passengers and cargo was sufficient to protect it from any possible danger. Allah the Highest said: “AND WHOEVER RELIES ON ALLAH, HE IS SUFFICIENT FOR HIM”. (S: 63 A: 3)
Allah the Highest protected the Ark from the great waves and prepared its landing on a mountain called “Al-Jodi”.
When the ship started to sail, Noah, peace upon him, saw his son who was not a believer, and he was struggling in the water. Noah asked him again to believe after seeing Allah’s sign, but his son said that he would seek the protection of a mountain, thinking that the water will not rise up as far as the top of the mountain, yet Noah told his son that only the believers, whom Allah the Highest has mercy upon, will be saved from this great flood, which was to kill the disbelievers yet spare the believers. No place will protect the disbelievers. They were separated by big waves, and Noah’s son was not saved, and drowned with the disbelievers.
This shows us that not even being the son of one of the great messengers, peace upon him, will intercede for a disbeliever with Allah the Highest and that the bond of Faith is stronger than the bond of blood. When Noah, peace upon him, pleaded for his disbelieving son, Allah the Highest corrected him. Indeed, the disbelief of Noah’s son broke up the bond of blood, and Noah had to ask Allah the Highest forgiveness for interceding for his disbelieving son.
Allah the Highest ordered the sky to stop raining and the earth to swallow the water, and the Ark settled on the mountain “Al-Jodi”, the believers were saved, and the disbelieving transgressors all perished, and life was to continue on earth with those seeds of true believers and all the other creatures.
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