Basic نوح Surah: Hud (44)

Quranic context: Nuh (peace be upon him) called his people for nine hundred and fifty years — yet only a few believed. Then Allah commanded him to build the ark and the flood came.

Context:

• "And We certainly sent Nuh to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years." (Al-Ankabut 14)
• He carried on board "of each thing two mates and your family — except those about whom the word has preceded — and those who have believed." (Hud 40)
• His son refused and said: "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." (Hud 43) — trusting in a material means rather than Allah
• "And it was said: O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold. And the water subsided and the matter was concluded." (Hud 44) — the Quranic rhetoric of cosmic conciseness

Lesson:
Blood kinship avails nothing without faith — the son of Nuh drowned while Asiyah (the wife of Pharaoh) was saved. Belonging to Allah is stronger than belonging to bloodline.

Source: Ibn Kathir (4/305); Al-Tabari (15/346); Al-Qurtubi (9/40)

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