The call, by night and by day
He calls his people to worship Allah alone, by night and by day, openly and in private; they put their fingers in their ears.
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا ٥Noah
نوح
Noah
He called his people for nine hundred and fifty years, and few followed him. By Allah's command he built the ark, which carried the believers and a pair of each kind, while the flood took the rest, including his own son.
His story, step by step
Each step links to the passage of the Quran that recalls it.
A thousand years less fifty
He remains among them a thousand years less fifty. Few follow him, and the notables scorn those who believe.
… فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمْ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمْسِينَ عَامًا …
The ark
Allah commands him to build the ark under His eyes. Each time the notables of his people pass by, they mock him.
وَٱصْنَعِ ٱلْفُلْكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا وَوَحْيِنَا …
The flood
When Allah's command comes and “the oven gushes forth”, he takes aboard the believers and a pair of every kind.
… وَفَارَ ٱلتَّنُّورُ قُلْنَا ٱحْمِلْ فِيهَا مِن كُلٍّ زَوْجَيْنِ ٱثْنَيْنِ …
His son
Amid waves like mountains, he calls his son to board with them. The son thinks a mountain will shelter him, and the waves come between them.
وَهِىَ تَجْرِى بِهِمْ فِى مَوْجٍ كَٱلْجِبَالِ وَنَادَىٰ نُوحٌ ٱبْنَهُۥ وَكَانَ فِى مَعْزِلٍ يَـٰبُنَىَّ ٱرْكَب مَّعَنَا وَلَا تَكُن مَّعَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ ٤٢
The ark rests on al-Judi
“Earth, swallow your water; sky, withhold!” The water subsides, and the ark comes to rest on Mount al-Judi.
وَقِيلَ يَـٰٓأَرْضُ ٱبْلَعِى مَآءَكِ وَيَـٰسَمَآءُ أَقْلِعِى وَغِيضَ ٱلْمَآءُ وَقُضِىَ ٱلْأَمْرُ وَٱسْتَوَتْ عَلَى ٱلْجُودِىِّ …
Peace upon Noah
Allah saves Noah and his people, makes his descendants the ones who remain, and leaves upon him peace among the worlds.
سَلَـٰمٌ عَلَىٰ نُوحٍ فِى ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ٧٩
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His account in the Quran
by Mishary Al Afasi