VERSES NO. 36 - 39

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Verses 40-43Verses 33-39

      After the parenthetical verse which referred to our prophet and his contemporary unbelievers, the story of Noah is resumed:ِ

      Noah's long efforts in preaching and teaching, in warning and admonishing, gave not the necessary and expected results, and only a small party of his people believed in his message, the number of whom counted no more than seventy two at maximum! Therefore God inspired to him that there was no more hope to save the sinners who were committing spiritual suicide!:ِ

      ``So it was inspired to Noah that no more of your people will ever believe, except those who have so far believed.''

      Grieve not you o, Noah, for these wicked people who have rejected our Divine Guidance and adopted the creed of devil! They all have to be punished and vanished! So, do not you intercede with me on behalf of any of the oppressors, that, the world should be cleaned and cleared of their filth. I will drown them in a dreadful flood. So you start making a vesselِan ark, light and large, enough to remain afloat in that furious flood, and to withstand the shocks of the angry waves!

      The people of Noah who were plunged in sin and worshipped pieces of stones that they had carved to idols according to their fancies and caprices, never came to themselves, and never considered Noah's requests seriously! Instead of pondering a while over what the prophet was telling them, they pushed their fingers into their ears and went away, or they stood scoffing at him and spoke contemptuously about his few followers!

      Particularly, when he was ordered to build the Ark, they shamelessly jeered at him and his colleagues in that shipwork,

saying:ِ ``Look here! Our high prophet has turned to a low carpenter! Behold! He is constructing his ship some nine hundred miles distant from the sea! Is he not mad? Another chief passing by, said:ِ ``O, Noah! If you are constructing a ship, here, you also have to construct a sea to carry your vessel on! The other came by and said to him:ِ ``Why so great an Ark? Make it smaller so that you may carry it up to the sea! '' Thus the chiefs and the elders of the people of Noah made a laughing stock of him and his Ark, and laughed boisterously at him and his followers.

      But Noah was a man relying on Allah. He knew well what he was doing, and what he did, he did it according to inspiration from God. He therefore ignored the mockeries and continued with his construction business, meanwhile he pitied their ironical critics, which was due to their dark ignorance. He only said to them:ِ

      ``If you scoff at us, we too shall in due time scoff at you; and soon you shall know to whom will come the despising punishment and a lasting torment.''

      The above verses imply that the punishment of Noah's people was not a sort of vengeance, inflicted in return of an injury or offence. It was rather an act of refinement to free man's society from evil, mischief, and dullness. Better to know it as a kind of pruning and cutting out the useless part from the tree of humanity, separating the good ones from the bad ones. The farmer of nature has to remove any weed or wild growth to free the garden from anything that is hurtful, offensive, and valueless.

      If the evil-doers, and mischief makers are left free and unattended, sooner or later, they will corrupt the whole population, and no one can live in a society in which the majority is given to evil.

      An Islamic tradition implies that forty years before the flood, God afflicted the people of Noah with a mysterious disease that rendered them barren, so that they were incapable of producing children. This affliction was a sign to them that Allah was going to punish them when there would be no innocent children among them.

 

 

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