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of Noah’s father was Lamekh and his mother was Sakha the daughter of Enoch.
Noah belonged to Iraq that was known as Chaldea. People liked Noah and
respected him but were not ready to leave worshipping the representations of
their imaginary gods. They had made five colossal statues to represent them.
According to the researchers, names of the gods, which the pagans worshipped,
were Wadd, Suwa, Yaguth, Ya’uq and Nasr. Wadd had an appearance of a tall man,
Suwa was like a woman Ya’uq was a horse, Yaguth was a loin and the Nasr was an
eagle.
Before
his appointment as prophet, people of Noah were altogether oblivious of One God
and instead of God they worshipped idols representing forces and things of
nature. Then God sent Noah to teach them the correct approach of thinking and
guide them on the path, which was straight.
Noah
invited them towards the true religion of God but they refused to listen to him
expressing their loath and hatred for his teachings. Chiefs and leaders did
their best to insult and abuse him. People having materialistic approach
accused him with allegations of all sorts to disgrace him. Their approach was
that Noah was not better than them by any worldly norm and standard. He was not
richer than them, he was not well off nor was he an angel, then why should they
obey him and how can he ‘be their leader?
Noah
instead of feeling disheartened or dejected kept on preaching Oneness of God.
When he refused their logic worshipping false gods and invited them towards
true God Almighty, they poked their fingers into their ears and yelled at him
saying that he had no right to say anything against the gods whom their
forefathers worshipped. They said, “YOU Insult our ancestral religion and make
us fear the penalty when we are better off than you in every way.”
When they saw the poor and down
trodden people following him, they said, “We won’t acknowledge you Our
leader like them.” They thought that those who followed him were low and
weak and have no vision, so they followed him blindly. When Noah insisted to be
listened, they demanded him to expel his low and poor companions because they
felt disgust from them.
If
I even dare to think of fulfilling of your demand, I won’t have any place to
hide from the grievous penalty of God. God value sincerity the most. They all
are God’s creatures. God does not like haughtiness and high-headedness.
Humiliation and humbleness in manners and attitude are liked the most by Him.
God has sent me to you as a messenger and prophet and my mission is to preach
his Oneness. Capitalism is a system devised by us, it has nothing to do with
God’s system nor does God ever sent angels for the guidance of man. You detest
these poor and weak people, who have faith in God, because they do not have
worldly riches and wealth. But bear this in your minds very clearly that the
good of the world bears no fruits in the hereafter. Blessed are those who have
the ability to do virtuous deeds with a sincere approach and they enjoy peace
of heart and mind and God commends them because they seek his willingness.”
The
arrogant people intruded his meetings and tortured the participants and used
every mean trick to stop him from preaching the God’s word.
They
Said: "lf thou desist not, O Noah! Thou shall be stoned to death.”
(S:
26, V: 116)
Before
them the People of Noah rejected (their apostle): they rejected our servant,
and said "Here is one possessed! ", and he was driven out.
(S: 54,V: 9)
In their Campaign of Propaganda
against him even his wife turned against him and collaborated with the infidels.
The chiefs of the Unbelievers among his people said. "He is no more than a
man like yourselves: his wish is to assert his superiority over you: If God had
wished to send messengers He could have sent down angels; never did we hear
such a thing as he says, among our ancestors of old. " And some said:
"He is only a man possessed: wait and have patience with him for a
time." Noah said: ”O my Lord! Help me: for that they accuse me of
falsehood!"
(S: 23,V: 24-26)
Noah
told them that he was not interested in their wealth and riches nor was he
after any worldly position and he also did not want any reward from them for
his reward is with his Lord God, who is best of all who can reward.
Noah
strived to guide his people but they did not correct themselves. The more he
tried to do good to them the more they expressed their aversion and tortured
him. Those strayed people, in order to maintain the monopoly of their ancestral
practices, grew obstinate and became stubborn.
"And they said to each other, ’Abandon not your
gods: Abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa', neither Yaguth nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr.”
(S: 7,V: 23)
They
said: ‘'O Noah.’ Thou hast disputed with us, and much hast thou prolonged the
dispute with us: now bring upon us what thou threatens us with, if thou speaks
the truth!"
He
said: "Truly, God will bring it on you if He wills and then, ye will not be
able to frustrate it!
(S: 11, V: 32-33)
Noah
preached for nine hundred and fifty years and could hardly manage to have forty
people follow him. According to some, the number of his followers was eighty. When
Noah lost all his hopes in his people he grew worried and grieved. God consoled
him and said, “You need not to worry for those who do not believe, for you have
done your part Of the Job Well. Those who were to believe, they believed and,
those who did not, you do not have anything to do with them.”
When
Noah realized that he was not lacking in his efforts and it was the fault on
the part of those who were not ready to believe him, he supplicated before God:
And
Noah, said: "O my Lord! Leave not of the Unbelievers, a single one on
earth! For, if Thou dost leave any of them, they will but mislead Thy devotees,
and they will breed none but wicked ungrateful ones. O my Lord! Forgive me, my
parents, all who enter my house in; Faith, and all believing men and believing
women: and to the wrong-doers grant Thou no increase but in perdition!”
(S: 71,V: 26-28)
God hearkened Noah and instructed him
to prepare a boat so that the believers could be saved of the inflicted penalty
destined for the non-believers. Noah started constructing a wooden ark.
According
to Torah the ark was three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty
cubits high. What is cubit? What measure is this? Nothing could be said with
certainty but according to the ratio between the length, height and width and
converting it into feet it was calculated that the ark was 450 feet long, 75
feet wide and 30 feet high. It has been mentioned in the ancient scrolls of
Torah that the sides of the ark were gradually raised bending inwardly in a
manner that only one cubit space was left overhead between the sides. The floor
of the ark was rectangular measuring 450 x 75 ft, with many stories.
According
to the modern ship builders, this was the best of a developed technology of
shipbuilding. This is the best possible measure to keep a ship safe from winds,
storms and rains and from getting stuck into mud and low waters. How a
ship if constructed with these measures, would look? In 1844, I.K. Bruvel,
emerged from storms of worst nature. Even today the large oil tankers are built
with using this ratio of measures.
And
sign for them is that We bore their race through the flood in the loaded Ark;
And We have created for them similar vessels on which they ride.”
(S:
35, V: 41.42)
Perusal
of the above Verse of the holy Quran reveals that man was not familiar with
ship making. This ark prepared by Noah was the first boat that was ever
constructed in the human history.
God
bestowed this knowledge upon Noah that he built a ship thousands of years ago,
which was a masterpiece of modern technology, which is still useful. And, this
knowledge kept on passing down the generations and is availed even today and
will be transferred to the generations to come.
Seeing him engaged in building the
ark, the infidels mocked and ridiculed him but he did not pay any heed to their
taunts and finally the ark was ready and the time of inflicted penalty
approached. Noah observed gushing of water from the earth as the first sign of
the approaching moment.
God
commanded Noah to ride the ark along with his followers having a pair of every
animal along. When it was done, God commanded the water to start pouring from
the sky and gushing out from the earth.
The
ark started floating in those waters safely; torrential rains and stormy winds
continued till every infidel was wiped out of the face of the earth.
When
the flood was set in and the ark of Noah started drifting upon the waters, Noah
prayed to God for the safety of his son; Yam, who had refused to accompany his
father. God said,
And
Noah called upon his Lord, and said: "O my Lord.’ Surely my son is of my
family! And Thy promise is true, and Thou art the most just of Judges! "
He said: "O Noah.’ He is not of thy family: For his conduct is
unrighteous. So ask not of Me that of which thou hast no knowledge! I give thee
counsel, lest thou act like the ignorant!" Noah said: "O my Lord! I
do seek refuge with Thee, lest I ask Thee for that of which I have no
knowledge. And unless thou forgive me and have Mercy on me, I should indeed be
lost.”
” The
word came. ”O Noah! Come down from the Ark with peace from Us, and blessing on
thee and on some of the peoples who will spring from those with thee: but there
will be other peoples to whom We shall grant their pleasures (for a time), but
in the end will a grievous penalty reach them from Us."
(S: 11,V: 45-48)
Perusal
of these words of God tells us that having some great progeny or family, the
worldly riches or social and worldly position have nothing to do with one’s
safety from the punishment of God or the welfare and good life here and in
Hereafter. But, it is related with one’s belief and certitude.
Father’s
love forced Noah to wish good and the safety of his son Yam but that
disobedient son replied that he would swim up to some peak of a hill to save
himself from the water of the flood.
Noah
told him, “Today no one is there to save anybody, only that would survive upon
whom God would be Merciful. And, in the meantime a wave engulfed him and he
was" among those who drowned.
The
son replied: "I will betake myself to some mountain: it will save me from
the water." Noah said: "This day nothing can save, from the command
of God, any but those on whom He hath mercy! "And the waves came between
them, and the son was among those overwhelmed in the Flood.
(S:11, V: 43)
Water
of the flood kept on rising and everything drowned in it. It kept on raining for
forty day ceaselessly and the springs kept on gushing forth and the ark of Noah
floated in the waters for six and a half month. Finally, on the behest of God,
water receded and the ark of Noah stopped by the Mount Ararat also known as
‘Judi’.
And
the flood was forty days upon the earth and the waters increased and bare
up the ark and it was lifted above the earth. And, the waters prevailed
and were increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the
waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high
hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did
the waters prevail and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved
upon the earth, both of the fowl and of the cattle and of the beasts and of
every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man.
(Genesis Ch.
7, 17-21)
In
Torah Judi is mentioned as Mount Ararat. It is the name of that area, which
runs between Euphrates and Tigris from Diar-e- Bakar to Baghdad. Water
gradually dried up and the passengers stepped down the ark. Every living thing
upon the earth except the passengers of the ark had annihilated and only those,
who were saved in that great flood, inhabited the earth.
For
this very reason Noah has been titled as ‘Second Adam’ and ‘Second Father of
Mankind’ because the people living on the earth are indebted to him for their
existence on the face of the earth. In a saying of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) he
has been referred to as ‘the First of the Messengers of God.’
Besides
the ancient literatures of Greece, Egypt, India and China, Burma, Malaya, East
Indian Isles, Australia, New Genie, America and Europe, legends of a great flood
are told. And, in some of them, every sixty years, after the flood, are taken as
one unit of time to earmark important events.
For
Hindus the period of the Flood of Noah is an event, which they commemorate as
Jal Paryan.
In 1929 during the excavation of the
ancient city of Ur near the Bay of Farris, about ten feet thick layer of that
soil was found, which, according to the scientists, who were supervising the
excavation, was the residue of a great flood. In the Valleys of river of
Southern Mesopotamia, same types of layers of soils were unearthed.
Scientists
of the previous century were of the view that the water had risen suddenly and
even the peaks of the highest mountain were submerged in the waters. The watermarks,
which can be observed even today on the Himalayas, Indies, Alps and Mountain
Rockies of America, are the proof of this fact that the rise of the water was
sudden and quick. Skeletons and the fossils of the skeletons of animals also
confirm these observations. Experts tell that the animals found in one piece
have signs of agony and pain but no evidence could be found to prove that some
superior carnivorous animal had killed them or that flesh had been removed from
their bodies.
One
of such example is that of an animal, which was found buried in the ice of
Siberia. The colossal body of that animal was found in such a perfect condition
that even its fur and skin were preserved in the ice. This animal was one of
those animals, which had been extinct few thousand years ago. The eyes, skin of
the body and the hair on the skin proved that the death of the animal was the
result of some sudden accident, as it had the grass, which it had just grazed
before its death, in its mouth. And, The grass, which was found in its stomach
was surprisingly was the grass, which is found only in hot areas and not in
cold climates like Siberia.
The
story of the legendary ark is also common amongst all the people of the world.
Then most of the books of various religions also mention an ark and the people
who were Saved due to that ark continued the mankind. During the exploration of
the reality of those legends and the stories so related, scientists came across
other things, which were such a discovery that adds a new dimension in the
greatness of man.
The
flood of Noah was indeed a great flood that wiped out the most developed
civilization of the world from the face of the earth in such a manner that only
a few signs have so far been encountered accidentally. The question, which we
are unable to answer, is that how that ship, boat or ark was built which
suffered the beating of stormy waves of water and gusty winds, nor its
collisions with rocks could damage it nor any fault occurred therein and all
the passengers in that boat survived. Any disease did also not affect them
during their ride nor did they hurt one another despite their differences of
genres, species and opinions.
According
to the Old Testament, at the time of flood, age of Noah was six hundred years
and after the flood he lived for three hundred years. But it does not give
us any clue as to where and how did he spend all that time.
Muslim
scholars are of the opinion that the word Sabine appearing in the Holy Quran is
used for the followers of Noah Shah Waliullah viewed that Arians are the
Sabine. Singh Agarwal in his book about Arians says: Arians, Whom father Manu
brought with them, did not worship ldols.
Vishnu (God) told one of His ardent
worshippers that a flood would come in seven days that would kill all those who
disgrace Him and that he should ride a boat with seven selected people
of faith (Rashies) and take animals of all types, too.
According
to Arianology, this prophecy was fulfilled to every word of it. The worshipper,
as Hindus call him was Mahanuvu: where Mahan meaning great and Nuvu is Noah.
According
to the researchers Vedas were revealed upon Noah. Vedas comprises of four
books; namely Rig-Veda, Sama- Veda, Yajur-Veda and Anu or Athar-Veda.
There are many verses in the Vedas
that contain the predictions about the Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). He has
been named a Narashis (Much Praised) and Agni (Mohammedan Reality) in the
Vedas.
“O
people! Listen! Narashis will be sent for the people. This migrated would be
taken into our refuge and saved from sixty thousand and ninety opponents and he
would ride a camel that would accompany three she-camels. Heavens would bow for
him and he would be given 100 gold coins, 10 necklaces, 300 horses and ten
thousand cows. ”
(Athar-Veda; Ganda 20, Sakt 127)
“Oh
Agni! (Mohammad) Manu Woah) testifies thy prophethood.” (Veda)
“O Dear Narashis, with sweet tongue, very sacrificing, I beseech through thy
sacrifices.” (Veda)
"O people! Listen! Narashis would be much
praised among the people. (Veda)
"O
Agni! (Mohammad) We know you are a preacher and a religious leader, preacher,
teacher of religious knowledge and a man of wisdom like Manu (Noah)”
Regarding
the event, which is related in the History Portion of the Holy Quran, God
had told us that thousands of year ago people insisted upon disobedience of God
and rejected the message sent by Him through His messenger; Noah. And, when
acceptance of right thing was denied and it was rejected just to remain covered
with the wrong, the law-enforcing agencies of God came into action and the
rebellious arrogant were wiped out of the face of the earth.
This
has also been stated in this event that in spite of such a ferocious and horrifying
flood and storm, which changed the geography of the earth, on small group of
people survived honorably only because they were rich in their faith and
belief.
Discovery
of atomic energy, Space traveling, Man’s stepping upon the moon,
Transplantation of body parts and ever-new scientific inventions of today are
making us to believe that man of today has reached the pinnacle of progress and
advancement and for this reason he has the right to consider the present age as
the greatest of all times. Let us examine carefully whether it is true that man
never progressed this far ever before?
For
the last two centuries scientists are endeavoring to establish that man is
passing through phases of evolution and has reached this far in millions of
years. Homosapien; the most superior creature of today was merely a creeping
insect on the surface of water, which evolved itself into an ape hanging upon
the branches of the trees.
This
all is based upon hypotheses and is conjectural suppositions because man has
only a record of hardly five thousand years of his past, which has been claimed
to be the foundation of the history of mankind. The advancement and progress
about which man is trumpeting today is nothing more than an illusive
supposition.
We
are not left with much time; the spell of this so-called progress and
development is about to be over. Man would soon come across such evidences,
which would enable him to realize the factual reality and know that the present
progress, advancement and development is merely a snare that has been spread by
the worshippers of the wealth and riches.
The
holy Quran, by telling us the story of Noah, invites us to ponder upon these
points:
·
God is All-Powerful, He may bestow
honor and respect upon whomsoever He wills or disgrace and
humiliate whomsoever He may wills.
·
God likes humbleness and
dislikes haughtiness, disobedience and bigheaded pride. And when the
disliked acts, deeds and attitude surpass the limit, the law enforcing agencies
of nature come into action and the disobedient are exterminated.
·
Everyone is responsible for
his own acts and deeds therefore grace of the father cannot be the remedy of
the disobedience of the son nor can the good fortune of the son can be
a compensation for the acts of the father.
·
Dependency and trust upon God
does not purport to quit the action and become inactive. The true definition of
dependency upon God is that one must not fault in ones endeavors and leave the
results upon God Almighty after doing what humanly possible can be done.
Building of the ark for the sake of one’s safety during the stormy floods is a
remarkable example of struggling practically and pragmatically.
·
Denial of the blessings and
ungratefulness are ignorance of such a degree, which keeps the secrets of God
obscure from the sight and the people go astray from the path of cognition of
reality and their arrogance and haughtiness cause them to fall in the pit of
destruction and they are made an example for the others by infliction of
disastrous penalty upon them.
·
Water, one of the components
of the Universe, plays a key role in up-keeping life of every type. It also has
the power to destroy besides having ability of nurturing and maintaining life.
Now
once again mankind has turned away from the nature and has associated itself
with material resources and this has brought it once again at the brink of
destruction. lf man failed in fulfilling his obligations of making use of his
mind sensibly and continued trudging along the paths of transgression and
disobedience like the people of Noah and did not follow the monotheistic path
practically and pragmatically, then he is not very far away from the day when
the seas would come out of their limits, the earth would start gushing out
springs and the down pour from skies would cause even the highest peaks of the
mountains to submerge and all the buildings, skyscrapers, palaces and the
entire hustle and bustle of the earth would be washed away for the good.
Do
they see nothing in earth and that entire God hat the government of the heavens
and the God hath created? Do they not see that it may well be that their term
is nigh drawing to an end? In what message after this will they then believe?
(S: 7, V: 185)
Rise
and fall of tides in the ocean result because of the gravitational pull exerted
between the sun and the moon. Black Holes have so much gravity that even the
light cannot escape their gravity and gets absorbed in them. It has been
hypothesized that if a Black Hole would pass close to the earth, it will exert
such a gravitation pull upon the earth that a tide would be produced in the
magma of the earth and on that side of the earth facing the Black Hole, the
earth would swell and rise in the form of a ring, causing dry land to emerge
from the Sea and the areas around that ring like space would cave in and the
dry land would thus turn into ocean. The oceans would be in a state of a
turmoil throwing mountain high tides and the earth would be affected from the
storms like it had never seen before and entire population of that side of the
earth would extinct leaving few submerged signs of their existence behind. All
these gigantic machines of today would crumble to dust.
In
Atlanta, the area in the ocean near Italy, traces of a continent have been
found. It is said that the people of this area were very developed in their
industry.
Mythological
stories of Hindus also give us clues that the people of remote past were very
advanced in using technology. They had the developed arsenals and they were
versed with the use of airborne machines, rockets and missiles. They had such
weapons of mass destruction that their bombs, instead of exploding after
hitting the ground, showered fire from the sky upon the enemies and it melted
all that would come under it.
Environmental
scientists, after analyzing about one hundred sixty thousands samples of ice
from the poles, and compounds of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon dioxide and the
compounds of Sulfur and Oxygen, have observed that after every ten thousand
years, the quantity of these elements after reaching its maximum limit drops
suddenly. And, this cycle completes once in a ten thousand years.
Level
of these gases in the atmosphere rises to its optimum level because of the
industrial growth. When there was no modern industry, or to say, man was in
Stone Age, these gases were at the minimum level. The more world progressed in
industrialization, the more is the ratio of these gases in the atmosphere.
Scientists
are of the opinion that sudden changes after every ten thousand years are signs
of the beginning of the Ice Age. According to them, after every ten thousand
years, the earth experiences a time, which they term as Ice Age; in this Age,
emission of these gases from the earth drops almost to zero.
Environmentalists have this assumption that
this change is expected to take place within next thirty years, which means
that the previous Ice Age had taken place ten thousand years ago.
According
to the Spiritual Scientists, the earth experiences after every ten thousand
years such changes and the oceans are replaced by dry land and the land is
converted into oceans. Now the year 2006 would mark the completion of the cycle
of ten thousand years, or to say, Ten thousand years would be completed in 2006
since the Flood of Noah. And, after 2006, gradually, the situation would
develop for another Flood like that of Noah’s times and all the industrial
development of world would come to an end. The population of man on the earth
would reduce to one fourth of the present day population and once again the
Stone Age would set in.
After
every ten thousand years, a Black Hole passes from a distance that it does not
pulls the planets of solar system towards itself but it does induces changes in
altering the seasons of these planets.
The
great spiritual scholar of this age, His DiViI1€ Grace Qalander Baba Auliya
told his disciple (the author) that after every ten thousand years the earth is
submerged under water and these ten thousand years are completing around in
2006. After 2006, man would witness such incidents and event that the surging
of Flood like Noah’s time would be verified. The earth would have intermittent
floods at various places; land sliding would level many mountains, water will be
everywhere. Seas and floods would swallow up three quarter population and those
who would survive will begin from the scratch and man would live in caves.
Before
the times of the Flood of Noah, mankind had revolted against the Creator of the
Worlds, worshipping of wealth had become the norm of their life, certitude was
obscured in thousands of veils and uncertainty was prevailing like the
sunlight.
In
those times of Noah, like today, man had started interfering in the affairs of
the Nature; peace had become alien for man. Selfishness reigned, sincerity had
died away, courtesy was only for those who were of any use, if they had no
interest they were not even courteous to others, people wanted others to do
things for them at no cost, powerful had a nuisance value. Terrify others and
make them slaves and subjects was a common practice. Clever people had enslaved
other for amassing wealth and riches, In the name of peace wars were waged upon
people, diseases of all kind had become common. One would burst in anger if his
obeyed. Love meant that others be doing one or the other thing for them
because they loved them.
The
situation today is much worse than it was before the Noah’s Flood. Nobody was
heedful to the cry of the earth then and now again the earth is crying. The
earth is not ready to suffer the penalty of greed, selfishness, hunger, and
self-interest any more and wants to purge itself from the rotten bodies.
It
is said that so far earth has witnessed 17 or 18 Floods like those of Noah and
is once again ready to have one.
The
only way to avoid this is that man should come out of his shell of
self-centered and selfish approach and consider others a human being like
himself. Should liberate himself from the clutches of greed and lusts, must put
an end to the curse of Usury, leaving the path of animosity of God, befriend
with God and the culture of sincerity and sacrifice be restored. Worshipping of
the wealth, which is the worst form of infidelity, is abandoned. Besides asking
forgiveness of God, God alone must be considered Provider of the sustenance.
Nudity, brazenness, prostitution and disgracing attitude are avoided. We all
should, after ordaining ourselves with prophetic approach of thinking, trudge
along the right path step by step.
All
this seems to be a pleasant dream coming true, Renaissance appear to be
forgotten dream because everyone considers himself duty bound to correct others
but is oblivious of one’s own correction.
The scientist
of today, who, indeed, is an individual of the mankind, has become an enemy of
the mankind. Each and ever bomb invented and prepared by him can kill thousands
of people There are not as many cities on the face of the earth as many atomic
bombs have been amassed. It is one of the laws of nature that when a thing
comes into existence, its usage becomes unavoidable. When all these bombs will
explode and shower destruction, the earth would burn and become barren Isn’t it
true that in order to satiate the burning desire of ruling others, construction
of the hidden infernos is another name of suicide and a wish to go to the Hell?
Just
consider this one question, if there won’t be any population in the world, upon
whom the rule would be exercised?
Scientists
and the people at the helm of affairs are required to have mercy in the heart
of their hearts and they should strive to arrange to live. in unison, love and
fraternity. Just as the people of a city, which despite having many colonies of
many houses and each house containing many people, causes people to live
together in harmony, similarly, all the countries remaining within their limits
strive for the progress and prosperous living of their citizens and avoid
interference in the‘ affairs of other countries.
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