Another display of Noah's people
((We sent Noah to his people [saying:] "I have come to you as a warner [against idolatry], evident [by my obvious and manifest signs.]"
"[So] serve you none but God. I fear for you the retribution of a painful day [: of their drowning.]"
Said the chiefs – of his people – who unbelieved: "We see you [Noah] not other than a mortal like ourselves [and you are not an angel], and we see not any following you but the vilest of us [but not the chiefs and the rich], with an obvious purpose [: that you may give them money.]
He said: "My people tell me your opinion: that if I rely on an obvious [guidance depending on revelation] from my Lord, and He gave to me [the prophethood as] a blessing from Him, and it has been obscured for you [so you have denied it, then what will your fate be?] and shall we compel you to [recognize] it, the while to it you are averse?"
"O my people, I do not ask of you any recompense concerning the [conveying of the message]; my recompense is only due of God. I will not drive away those who believe; they shall surely meet their Lord [and complain to Him against me if I drive them away.] But I see you are a people ignorant [of the final consequences.]"
"O my people, who will save me from God['s punishment], if I drive them away? Will you not then be admonished!?"
"I do not say to you: "I possess the treasuries of God"; I know not the [knowledge of the] Forefuture; and I do not say: "I am an angel." Nor do I say, about those [poor] your eyes despise, that God will not give them any good; God knows best what is in their souls. Surely in that case I should be one of the wrong-doers."
They said: "O Noah, you have disputed with us and prolonged the disputation with us; now bring upon us [the torment] that you threaten us with, if you speak truly."
He said: "It is only God Who may bring it on you if He wills; when – then – you will never escape [from Him.]"
"And my sincere advising will not profit you, if I desire to advise you [more than that I have advised you], if God wills to pervert you [because of your wrong-doing]; He is your Lord, and to His [sentence] you will be returned [after your death.]"
Or do they say: "He [: Mohammed] has forged it [: the Quran]"?
Say [Mohammed to them]: "If I have forged it, my sin is my responsibility, and I am quit of the sins you have done [: when you have ascribed daughters to God.]"
And it was revealed to Noah [the word of God:] "None of your people shall henceforward believe but he who has already believed; so grieve not over that they are doing."
"But build the Ark under Our observation and as We instruct you by revelation, and address Me not on behalf of the wrong-doers [that I may pardon them, and do not intercede for them]; surely they are going to be drowned."
So he [and his comrades] were building the Ark; and whenever a council of his people [who unbelieved] passed by [Noah] they scoffed at him.
He said: "If you scoff at us [this day], we shall surely scoff at you [in the future], as you scoff [this day.]"
"But soon you will come to know [the consequences of your ridicule, and] to whom will come a chastisement degrading him [in this World], and upon whom there shall settle a lasting chastisement [in the afterlife.]"
[Thus it was] till, when Our decree [of exterminating his people] came to pass, and the 'clay oven of baking' gushed forth [water], We said [to Noah]: "Carry in the [Ark] of each [kind of cattle, animals and birds] two spouses [male and female] and your family members [: his wife, his three sons and their wives] – save those [: his betraying second wife and his son: Canaan] against whom the word has already been decided [by the Lord] – and [carry in the Ark] those who believe", and there believed not with him except a few.
[Noah] said [to the believers]: "Embark in the [Ark!] In God's name [we start at the beginning of] its course and [at the time of] its berthing. Surely my Lord is Most Forgiving [for us concerning our past sins], Most Merciful [to us by saving us from the drowning.]"
[Noah and his grandson: Canaan]
So the [Ark] ran with them amid waves [as high] as mountains,
and Noah called out to [Canaan] his son who had isolated himself [from the Ark and from his father's comrades]: "My son, embark [in the Ark] with us, and stay not with the unbelievers [for then you will be drowned.]"
He said: "I shall resort to some mountain that will save me from [drowning in] the water."
[Noah] said: "This day there is nothing that can save from God's decree [concerning the downing of the unbelievers] except any on whom [God] has had mercy [by guiding him to believe.]"
And the wave came between them [: Noah and his son], so his [son] was among the drowned [in the water.]
And it was said [by the angels]:
"Earth, swallow your waters [so the waters went inside the earth, some went into the rivers and seas, and some evaporated];
and sky, be cleared [of clouds, and cease raining]!"
And the waters [on the surface of the earth] were made to subside.
And the affair [of their drowning] was concluded.
And the [Ark] settled upon the [mount] Judi [in the Ararat range],
and it was said [by Noah and those with him]: "Away with the people of the wrong-doers."
[The prayer of Noah, about his son, was refused]
And Noah called unto his Lord, and said: "O my Lord, my son is one of my family members [whom You promised me to save from the drowning], and Your promise [concerning their saving from the drowning] is surely true [that will not be broken.] You are the Most Wise of those that decide affairs.
[God] said: "O Noah, he is not one of your family members [whom I promised you to save]; this [your request to save your son] is unrighteous deed; so ask Me not about that which you have no knowledge [concerning the deeds of Canaan.] I admonish you that you should not be [one] of the ignorant."
[Noah] said: "My Lord, I take refuge with Thee, lest I should ask Thee for that of which I have no knowledge, and unless Thou forgive me and have mercy on me, I should indeed be of those who lose [in the Hereafter.]"
[Then after the ship settled on the mountain,] it was said [by the angels]:
"O Noah, descend [from the mountain to the plain land] in safety [granted] by Us, and blessings on you and on [some] nations of those [of the black and yellow races] who are with you [in the Ark],
but [some other] nations [in other countries of the earth that the deluge did not reach], We shall allow them to enjoy prosperity [with wealth and children in the life of the World] and then there will touch them from Us a painful torment [according to their association and infidelity.]
These [stories and tidings] are [some] of the tidings of 'the Unseen (or Unknown)' which We reveal to you [Mohammed]; you did not know them, neither did your people, before this [revelation]; so be patient [concerning the hurt of your people, O Mohammed; as was Noah patient concerning the hurt of his people]; surely, the [best] final sequel will be for those who ward off [God's punishment by obeying Him.] ))
The above is in the Quran 11: 25-49
وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَى قَوْمِهِ إِنِّي لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ ..الخ
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So Noah invited his people to worship God alone and warned them of their punishment if they insist on their idolatry; but their response was almost only ridicule and mockery and disbelief; and only a very little number of them believed and were saved with Noah in the Ark.
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