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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groups who did not directly benefit from a prophet after Prophet Noah.
In particular, after Prophet Abraham
PBUH
At the time of accountability, they were presented along with the
nation of Prophet Noah. However, they did not directly know the
teachings of Prophet Noah nor did they appreciate their relationship to
him in a way other people like the People of the Book and the Muslims
did. Therefore, they denied ever having received the message of
Prophet Noah
, no prophets were sent to
nations other than his descendants. These people are now considered
as either descendants of Prophet Noah or belonging to his nation.
PBUH
Saleh added, “Abdullah is correct. It is a fact that people from the
nation of Prophet Muhammad delivered the message of God to such off
springs of the nation of Prophet Noah. For this reason, all initial and
final witnesses from the nation of the last Prophet are being called upon
to bear witness, as in the previous world they had conveyed the truth to
these people through their actions. Today these witnesses will testify
that one way or the other, they had managed to convey the message of
Oneness of God to these people; this message was the real inheritance
of the teachings of Prophet Noah and was forgotten later on. Following
the arrival of the last Prophet, this message was preserved till the Day
of Judgement and his followers fulfilled their responsibility of passing it
on to the children of Noah.”
. Their refusal is not entirely unjustified either."
Naimah looked at me and asked, “Why were they not presented
along with the nation of the last Prophet then?”
“They would have been if they had embraced Islam. However, they
did not do so and continued to follow the disfigured religion of their
ancestors. Since every nation is being presented for accountability along
with its prophet, all such people have been brought forward as the
nation of Prophet Noah. The reason is that their forefathers had
embraced faith through Prophet Noah.” I replied, and
then summarised the discussion in these words:
“In short, Prophet Noah
PBUH
“Come on Abdullah, we are being called” Saleh said to me.
personally delivered the message of
God to the early followers of his nation while the Muslims delivered it
to the later generations being the upholders of the message of Oneness
of God and Day of Judgement, and that was the main message of all
prophets including Prophet Noah.”
We got up and started moving towards our destination.
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Once again, we were in the presence of the last Prophet of God,
Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him! He had the
same radiance on his face as well as the same attractiveness and aura
that I had observed when I saw him the first time. I felt as if I had known
him since centuries, and his love continued to grow in my heart.
I was sitting at the rear of the gathering of his companions, looking
at his glowing face as he talked to them. Then someone went close to
him and said something in his ear.
Saleh whispered in my ear, “That is his servant Anas, and he is
telling him about you.”
At that moment, the Prophet raised his head to look at me and
welcomed me with a heartening smile, confirming what Saleh had
whispered in my ear. Then he smiled and said to the people sitting
around him:
“The nation of one of the forefathers of humanity and Prophet of
God, Noah has refused to accept his testimony by saying that he did not
directly deliver any message to them. In fact, my followers had
delivered the same message to them. All of you sitting here believe in
all prophets of God, and the religion that I passed on to you is the same
religion that was given to Prophet Noah. It is therefore, your
responsibility to present yourself in the Court of the Almighty, and
testify on behalf of Prophet Noah. You have to testify that the invitation
to believe in one God and righteous deeds that Prophet Noah had
extended to his followers, and which I also passed on to you, was
delivered to his nation by you, without any omissions or additions,
thereby fulfilling his and my mission.”
He then asked his companion Abu-Bakr, sitting next to him, to rise.
Abu-Bakr, May God be pleased with him, did so.
The Prophet said to the people around him:
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