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Chapter 9: The Nation of
Noah
PBUH
and those who
altered their Faith
The dilemmas being faced by my teacher Farhan Ahmad and
Jamshaid had plunged me into deep introspection. Saleh had a fair idea
of the mental anguish I was going through. To divert my attention, he
said:
“It has escaped your mind that we had actually come here to meet
the last Prophet, peace be upon him. You stopped here on our way. In
the meantime, he has himself asked for you.”
“Has Papa not met the last Prophet yet, peace be upon him?”
Anwar asked, quite surprised.
Saleh clarified:
“Every person who returns successful from the Plane of Judgement
goes straight to the last Prophet first. The Prophet rewards him by
giving him a glass of water from Kauthar with his own hands. His family
members are also called on that occasion. Thereafter, they merrily
proceed and take a spot of their choice on the bank of the pond or, as
your father calls it, ‘a lake’. However, your father was fond of roaming
in the Plane of Judgement, thus prior to his meeting with the Prophet,
and at his request, he was sent back to the Plane of Judgement.
However, now the Prophet has himself asked for him.”
“Is everything alright? Why has he been summoned”? Naimah
inquired.
Saleh replied:
“As the accountability of different nations continues, now is the
turn of the nation of Prophet Noah
PBUH
“What a position! How can they say that they have not received any
message of God? They were drowned right there in the world because
they had denied the message of Prophet Noah. After that decision from
God, how can they say that Prophet Noah
. But his nation has flatly denied
that they had received any message of God from him.”
PBUH
Leila added further to her earlier comment:
did not pass any message
to them and that too in the presence of God?” Arifa asked.
“And even if they have taken a stubborn stance and have chosen to
lie, Qur’an had stated that the mouths of such people will be shut and
their hands and feet will be asked to testify. How can they say such a
thing?”
Saleh explained the situation further:
“The people who are making that claim are not people of Prophet
Noah’s nation who had incurred the punishment. They are the
children of those who had embraced the faith as prophesized by him
and then their siblings inhabited the world. Nevertheless, to a
significant number of them no prophet was sent after Prophet Noah.
They relied on guidance about the Oneness of God and Day of
Judgement that was in essence a remnant of Prophet Noah’s teachings,
even though after the passage of such a long time, they may not have
recognised it as such and they may have even distorted it to some
extent. It is for this reason that they have denied having received any
guidance from Prophet Noah.”
I interjected to further clarify Saleh's reply:
“The fact is that majority of the humanity originated from Prophet
Noah
PBUH
. A number of groups among them, particularly the
descendants of his son ‘Shem’, who inhabited the central areas of
Earth like Middle East and its adjoining regions, benefited from a
continuous chain of prophets and messengers. Yet, there were many
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