Story of PROPHET: NOAH - NOOH (عليه السلام) Part 2

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PROPHET: NOAH - NOOH (عليه السلام)

PART: 2

THE FIRST MESSENGER

Noah was sent by Allah when his people started worshipping idols and false gods, and fell into the depth of darkness and ignorance. He was the first Messenger to be sent upon this earth.

Allah the Almighty has mentioned how He sent to them the punishment of Flood to those rejected his call. He also mentioned how He saved him and those on his Ark in different chapters of the Qur’an. For instance, Al-Araf, Yunus, Hud, Al-Anbiya, Al-Muminun, Ash-Shura, Al-Ankabut, As-Saffat, Al-Qamar and Nuh – a whole chapter.

HOW THE IDOL WORSHIP BEGAN

As mentioned earlier in the hadith of Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه: “There were ten Qarn between Adam and Noah, all lived according to Islam.

After those pious generations, people gradually started to worship idols.

Imam Bukhari has narrated from Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه, who explained under the commentary of the Verse, how they did so: “And they have said: ‘Do not forsake your gods, and do not forsake WADD nor SUWA’, neither YAGHUTH nor YA’UQ nor NASR.’”

He says:

They were the names of pious people from among them. Following their death, Satan inspired their people to erect statues in the places where they used to sit, and to name the statues with the names (of those men)! They did so, but they were not worshipped until that generation died and the knowledge (of what those statues were erected for) was lost. Then, they were worshipped.

Ibn Abbas further said: the Arabs afterwards worshipped those idols that were among the people of Noah.

Ibn Jarir reported:

They were pious people of the period between Adam and Noah, and they had followers who took them as their models. When they died, their followers said: ‘If we could make statues of them, it will encourage us to worship whenever we remember them.’ So they built statues of them. But when they died and other generations came after them, Iblis crept into their minds saying: ‘Your forefathers used to worship them and through them they sought rain. Hence they began to worship them.

اَللّٰهُ أَعْلَم

To be Continued…

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