Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 158 – The Story Of Nuh

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The sh pattern of Islam is discussed, including the importance of shrockade, sh honoring people, and the use of sh airline and sh airline. The speaker emphasizes the importance of avoiding mis cautious behavior and the need for people to stop and reflect on the message of their Lord. The transcript covers a range of topics, including the common characteristics of prophets and messengers of Islam, the worship of Allah, and the history of the prophets' actions.

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			I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed
		
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			Satan لَقَدْ
		
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			أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ فَقَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُ
		
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			اللَّهَ مَا لَكُمْ مِنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ إِنِّي أَخَافُ
		
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			عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٌ And
		
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			that is because Nuh as we know from
		
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			the Sunnah of our Messenger ﷺ was the
		
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			first of Allah's messengers sent to the people
		
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			of the earth.
		
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			So before the time of Nuh, all of
		
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			the people were upon Tawheed.
		
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			All of the generations from the time of
		
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			Adam until just before the time of Nuh,
		
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			they were upon the Tawheed of Allah and
		
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			worship of Allah alone.
		
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			And it is only at the time of
		
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			Nuh or just before his time that the
		
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			people first went away from the path of
		
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			Tawheed and started to delve into shirk and
		
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			started to associate partners with Allah.
		
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			And that is why the Prophet ﷺ said
		
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			on the Day of Resurrection when the people
		
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			go to the different Prophets asking for their
		
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			intercession, they will come to Nuh ﷺ and
		
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			what they will say in praise of him
		
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			is that you or Nuh are the first
		
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			of Allah's messengers to the people of the
		
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			earth.
		
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			You are the first of the Rusal because
		
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			everyone before you was a Prophet.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ here tells us the story
		
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			of Nuh ﷺ.
		
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			In the narration of Abdullah ibn Abbas ﷺ
		
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			he says just to give a quick background
		
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			to the story of Nuh ﷺ since it
		
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			is the first time that we are covering
		
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			it.
		
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			Ibn Abbas ﷺ in his narration he says
		
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			that the people from the time of Adam
		
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			until the time of Nuh approximately ten generations
		
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			of people, all of them were upon the
		
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			Tawheed of Allah ﷻ worshipping Allah ﷻ alone.
		
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			Until there came a time when the people,
		
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			they lived amongst them five noble people, five
		
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			righteous men.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ dedicates a surah of the
		
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			Quran to the Prophet Nuh that is a
		
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			surah that is named after Nuh ﷺ.
		
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			And the names of those five people, those
		
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			five men were mentioned explicitly in the Quran.
		
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			And that is that they are Wad and
		
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			Suwa and Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
		
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			These are five men that were righteous and
		
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			noble in the generation of those people of
		
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			Nuh ﷺ.
		
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			After those five people passed away, Iblis came
		
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			to them in the form of a man.
		
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			And he said to those people these men
		
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			that just died were righteous men, pious men,
		
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			God-fearing men.
		
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			And now that they have died you should
		
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			erect statues of them so that when you
		
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			see them you are reminded of their goodness
		
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			and piety.
		
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			And that you too will be good like
		
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			them.
		
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			You come past them, you see that statue,
		
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			you're like he was a noble man.
		
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			It inspires you to be noble.
		
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			That man was a righteous man, it motivates
		
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			you to be righteous.
		
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			And so this is something which, this is
		
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			from the traps of Iblis, from the ways
		
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			that Iblis plays with the children of Adam.
		
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			Comes with a very noblest of means, something
		
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			which seems very positive in its outset.
		
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			But Iblis, as we said before, plays the
		
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			long game.
		
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			He's not even interested in those people that
		
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			are going to do this.
		
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			But rather the generations that will succeed them.
		
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			And so Nuh ﷺ, or those people rather
		
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			at that time, they accepted this advice.
		
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			And they erected these five big statues across
		
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			their city.
		
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			Each one depicting one of these five men
		
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			of righteousness and piety.
		
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			But then that generation dies.
		
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			And the next one comes and dies.
		
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			And the next one comes and dies.
		
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			Until a group of people now arrive, a
		
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			generation who no longer remember the purpose of
		
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			those statues.
		
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			They only know that they've been there for
		
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			a long time.
		
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			They only know that their ancestors in one
		
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			way or another respected them and honored them.
		
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			But they don't really know the background.
		
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			And it's lost over time as often happens
		
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			when people start to do practices like this.
		
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			You can't really trace back its history because
		
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			it's not based on scripture.
		
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			It's not based on any type of evidence
		
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			or history.
		
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			It is based upon what the people did
		
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			culturally or according to their norms or what
		
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			they considered to be good.
		
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			And so a generation comes that no longer
		
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			understands.
		
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			So Iblis comes to them again in the
		
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			form of a man.
		
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			And he says, asks them, don't you know
		
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			what these statues are for?
		
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			Don't you know what your parents used to
		
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			do and your grandparents and ancestors did with
		
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			them?
		
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			They said, no, we don't really understand and
		
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			know what they're for.
		
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			He said, these are your gods that they
		
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			worship.
		
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			These are the gods that you're meant to
		
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			be worshipping.
		
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			So those people started to perform shirk with
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jalla.
		
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			They worshipped those idols besides Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jalla.
		
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			That is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will say in Surah Nuh that they said
		
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			when Nuh a.s. came, and don't leave
		
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			your gods, don't forsake them, and don't forsake,
		
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			they named those men and said, don't forsake
		
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			these are your gods that you should be
		
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			worshipping.
		
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			And that is when Nuh a.s. is
		
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			sent to that people.
		
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			When that's the predominant thought and mindset that
		
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			is taking place, Nuh a.s. is then
		
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			sent to call them back to Allah Azza
		
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			wa Jalla and remind them of the Tawheed
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			But the point is that this is how
		
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			shirk begins.
		
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			And this is the essence of shirk.
		
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			And that is why when the scholars of
		
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			Islam are strict, when they see someone making
		
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			dua to a grave, or they see someone
		
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			for example asking someone to give them a
		
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			child, or they see someone doing an aspect
		
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			of something that may, even if that person's
		
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			intention is not shirk, and they already have
		
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			that in their heart, but it's an action
		
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			that they shouldn't be doing except for the
		
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			sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Even if it is a form of minor
		
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			shirk, that is something which the scholars speak
		
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			out and they speak out against it very
		
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			strictly.
		
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			Because this is how shirk permeates through a
		
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			nation.
		
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			And that is why you see today in
		
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			the Muslim ummah, across the Muslim world, you
		
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			will see examples of shirk in many different
		
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			forms.
		
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			And those people don't for one second believe
		
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			they're committing shirk.
		
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			Not for one second do those people believe
		
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			that they're doing wrong or haram, because which
		
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			Muslim in their right mind would do something
		
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			that they openly consider to be shirk.
		
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			But those acts are shirk.
		
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			If you speak to those individuals and come
		
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			down to what it is that they're trying
		
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			to do and achieve through those acts of
		
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			worship that they're performing, then it is very
		
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			similar, if not the same as, and sometimes
		
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			worse, than what the Quraysh did with all
		
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			of their idols in the time of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so here Allah azzawajal gives to us
		
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			this story then, لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ
		
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			So we called or we sent the Messenger
		
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			of Allah, Nuh alayhi salatu wassalam, to his
		
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			people.
		
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			We sent him to his people because that
		
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			is what Allah azzawajal does, because Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala wants us to be upon
		
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			Tawheed.
		
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			And Allah azzawajal does not like that people
		
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			are upon shirk.
		
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			And so Allah sends prophets and messengers and
		
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			gives to them revelation and scripture that they
		
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			may remember their Lord and Creator subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			فَقَالَ يَقُومِ اِعْبُدُ اللَّهَ مَا لَكُمْ مِنْ إِلَٰهٍ
		
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			غَيْرُ So Nuh alayhi salatu wassalam came to
		
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			his people and he said, Oh my people
		
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			worship Allah, you have no other God besides
		
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			Him.
		
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			This is the quote that Allah azzawajal will
		
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			repeat throughout this surah.
		
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			In the story of as we've seen here
		
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			Nuh and then again in the story of
		
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			Hud and Salih and Shu'aib, these prophets
		
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			of Allah to show that their call was
		
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			one, that their message was one.
		
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			That all of the messengers and prophets of
		
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			Allah alayhi salatu wassalam from the time of
		
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			Adam until our prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wassalam,
		
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			all of them called to that one same
		
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			message of Tawheed.
		
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			They may have had differences in terms of
		
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			some of the rulings of their sharia, some
		
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			of the do's and the don'ts of the
		
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			halal and the haram, in some of those
		
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			minutiae details they may have had some differing
		
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			amongst them in terms of their sharia's but
		
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			the overarching message was that of worshipping Allah
		
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			alone, believing in Allah azzawajal alone, having Tawheed
		
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			in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone.
		
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			And that is what Nuh alayhi salam calls
		
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			his people to.
		
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			Oh my people worship Allah alone, you have
		
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			no other God besides Him.
		
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			إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ For I
		
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			fear for you the punishment of a fearsome
		
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			day.
		
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			And that is what the prophets and messengers
		
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			did.
		
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			They gave as Allah has told us now
		
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			a number of times in the Quran, they
		
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			gave glad tidings and they gave warnings.
		
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			My people worship Allah, which means if you
		
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			do so you will be rewarded.
		
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			You will be upon the path to success
		
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			and salvation.
		
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			And oh my people beware that if you
		
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			don't worship Allah alone, then you're going to
		
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			be from those people that Allah punishes.
		
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			And that punishment is not like any punishment,
		
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			it's not just like the worldly punishment but
		
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			it is the punishment of Yawm al Qiyamah
		
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			and the punishment of the Akhirah, which is
		
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			a major type of punishment.
		
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			So how did his people respond?
		
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			In verse number 60 Allah Azawajal tells us.
		
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			Look at the response that his people gave
		
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			to him.
		
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			قَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِهِ إِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ
		
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			مُّبِينٍ But the prominent leaders of his people
		
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			said, we believe you are far astray.
		
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			The Mala Allah Azawajal often in the Quran
		
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			will refer to the people who opposed his
		
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			prophets and messengers as Mala.
		
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			It is mentioned in the story of Pharaoh
		
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			for example and Musa Alayhissalam and it's mentioned
		
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			in a number of other stories of these
		
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			prophets that were sent to different nations.
		
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			The Mala are the nobility and the leaders.
		
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			Remember those verses that we covered already in
		
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			Surat Al-Araf when we were speaking about
		
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			the people of the fire and the people
		
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			of Jannah and the conversations that they will
		
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			have.
		
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			One of those conversations is between the people
		
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			of the fire themselves that when they enter
		
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			into the fire in droves and multitudes and
		
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			as groups and nations, they will curse one
		
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			another.
		
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			And then the followers will say to their
		
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			leaders, it's because of you that we're here.
		
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			So Allah doubled the punishment of these people.
		
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			Those verses that we covered already.
		
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			This is an example of this.
		
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			Allah Azawajal says that it is the Mala
		
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			of the people, the nobility, their leaders that
		
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			used to say because they're the ones that
		
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			take the lead in this issue of rejecting
		
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			their prophets and messengers.
		
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			They're the ones at the forefront.
		
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			And everyone else just follows them because they're
		
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			the elders and they're the leaders and they're
		
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			the nobility and the rich and the wealthy.
		
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			And so they just become like the masses
		
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			that follow them.
		
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			And so Allah Azawajal often in the Quran
		
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			speaks about the Mala because they are the
		
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			primary enemies to those prophets and messengers that
		
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			Allah Azawajal sent to them.
		
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			So here we have the Mala from his
		
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			people, from the people of Nuh A.S.
		
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			who said, إِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ We
		
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			think that you are upon misguidance.
		
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			And how ironical that when they are the
		
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			ones upon shirk and upon polytheism and idol
		
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			worship and idolatry, that they're turning towards one
		
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			of the greatest prophets and messengers of Allah,
		
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			Nuh A.S. and saying that we fear
		
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			that you are upon misguidance.
		
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			And that is always the way or many
		
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			times often the way that the prophets and
		
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			messengers were treated.
		
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			They were rejected and denied.
		
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			And often their people would ridicule them as
		
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			being crazy or upon misguidance.
		
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			So all these terms that we heard that
		
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			the Quraysh used to say and the Arabs
		
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			used to say about our prophet, S.A
		
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			.W., were not new.
		
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			It's not the first time that it ever
		
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			happened in the history of humankind.
		
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			Allah Azawajal is telling us that right from
		
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			the first messenger that Allah Azawajal sent, the
		
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			people responded in that same way.
		
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			You're crazy.
		
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			You're upon misguidance.
		
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			You're foolish.
		
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			You're upon something which we don't understand and
		
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			we don't like.
		
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			And so this is how they responded to
		
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			Nuh A.S. Nuh A.S. responds in
		
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			verse 61 and he says, قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ
		
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			لَيْسَ بِي ضَلَالَةٌ وَلَكِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِّن رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
		
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			He replied, My people, there is nothing astray
		
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			about me.
		
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			On the contrary, I am a messenger from
		
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			the Lord of all of the worlds.
		
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			Nuh A.S. responds and he says, What
		
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			misguidance do you think that I am upon?
		
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			When I am calling you to the worship
		
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			of Allah alone and telling you that what
		
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			you're worshipping of these idols that cannot move,
		
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			cannot speak, cannot eat, cannot drink, cannot protect
		
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			you, cannot harm you, cannot benefit you.
		
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			They can't respond to you.
		
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			There's nothing that they can actually do.
		
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			But you are the ones who create them
		
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			and fashion them.
		
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			And then you are the ones who give
		
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			them offerings and take those offerings away and
		
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			they can do nothing.
		
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			Their position does not change.
		
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			No matter what you do, no matter the
		
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			weather or the circumstances or the hardships or
		
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			the difficulties, they stay exactly as the inanimate
		
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			objects that they are.
		
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			And you're saying to me that I'm upon
		
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			misguidance when this is what you're doing?
		
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			And so these people were saying that, Oh
		
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			Nuh, you're on misguidance and he says, But
		
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			if you were to just stop and think
		
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			and ponder and reflect, you will realize which
		
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			one of the two of us is upon
		
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			misguidance.
		
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			But rather, I am a messenger from Allah
		
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			A.S. I am a prophet that Allah
		
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			A.S. has sent to you.
		
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			That you may be guided.
		
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			That I may show you the path back
		
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			to him.
		
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			That you may stop and think as to
		
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			what it is that Allah A.S. wants
		
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			from you.
		
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			And as we know from elsewhere in the
		
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			Quran, Nuh A.S. is rejected in a
		
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			number of ways.
		
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			And inshallah ta'ala when we come to
		
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			the tafsir of Surah Nuh in the 29th
		
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			juz of the Quran towards the very end
		
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			of the book of Allah A.S., we
		
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			will see in more detail the measures and
		
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			the extent to which Nuh A.S. went
		
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			in order to call his people and to
		
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			guide them.
		
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			And how despite all of his efforts, they
		
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			rejected him.
		
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			How despite all of his efforts, they denied
		
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			him.
		
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			And they tried to harm him instead.
		
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			But he continues in verse 62 and he
		
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			says, أُبَلِّغُكُمْ رِسَالَاتِ رَبِّي وَأَنصَحُ لَكُمْ أَعْلَمُ مِنَ
		
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			اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ I am delivering my
		
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			Lord's messages to you and giving you sincere
		
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			advice.
		
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			I know things from Allah that you do
		
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			not know.
		
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			And so he says that what I have
		
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			come to you with is the message of
		
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			my Lord.
		
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			Telling you what your Lord wants from you.
		
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			What your creator has legislated upon you.
		
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			What he wants from you and that is
		
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			the worship of Allah A.S. alone.
		
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			وَأَنصَحُ لَكُمْ And I am sincere in my
		
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			advice to you.
		
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			And this is a common characteristic of all
		
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			of the prophets and messengers of Allah.
		
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			That the prophets and messengers of Allah, all
		
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			of them are people of sincere advice.
		
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			They are people who are sincere, sincerity and
		
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			honesty and integrity.
		
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			When they call their people to Allah A
		
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			.S. And that is why the prophets and
		
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			messengers of Allah, even before they are sent
		
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			to their people, they are known for this
		
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			particular trait.
		
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			And that is that they are people of
		
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			honesty.
		
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			They were not known to be liars or
		
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			cheats or deceivers.
		
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			Because then when they came with the message
		
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			of Allah, their people would rightly be able
		
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			to say to them, but you have a
		
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			history of lying and cheating.
		
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			You have a history of being dishonest and
		
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			unfaithful and untrue.
		
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			And so the prophets of Allah are always
		
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			people of impeccable character.
		
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			Impeccable manners.
		
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			Impeccable in the way that they deal with
		
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			people and in their interactions.
		
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			So when they bring their message of Allah,
		
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			at the very least those people cannot say
		
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			that this person is a liar.
		
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			Because even if they call him a liar,
		
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			they call him a liar based upon what
		
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			they say now.
		
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			They never called him a liar before.
		
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			And those people who then stop and think
		
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			about this, will know that this man doesn't
		
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			have a history of lying.
		
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			And that is why when in the time
		
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			of the prophets, when Abu Sufyan was questioned
		
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			by the Byzantine Roman leader, he asked him
		
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			these questions.
		
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			Is this man known to lie?
		
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			Was he known to make these claims before?
		
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			Was it known that his family were leaders
		
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			and kings that he might want to take
		
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			back their position of power for himself?
		
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			And Abu Sufyan said, no, it's not known
		
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			to have ever lied.
		
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			We can't claim that he was ever a
		
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			liar.
		
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			Not known to have made up these types
		
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			of claims before.
		
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			Not known that his parents were kings.
		
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			We don't have kings like that that he's
		
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			trying to take back their power.
		
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			His family is one of the noble families
		
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			anyway of Quraysh.
		
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			And so the Byzantine Roman leader, he remarked
		
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			on this.
		
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			And he said that I asked you these
		
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			questions to know the history of this man,
		
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			his personality and his character.
		
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			Because someone who has a history of making
		
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			these types of claims, or they're known to
		
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			be dishonest or to have a lack of
		
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			integrity, then he comes with this claim, you're
		
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			going to take that with a good measure
		
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			of suspicion as to whether this person is
		
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			truthful or not.
		
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			But someone who's known only to speak the
		
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			truth, you only believe in him, he's the
		
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			one that would settle your disputes, he's the
		
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			one that you would go to in order
		
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			to arbitrate between you, he's known for these
		
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			characteristics and you trusted him, then why now
		
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			would you cast him to be a liar
		
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			simply because he bought something which you don't
		
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			necessarily like.
		
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			And that is what Nuh A.S. does.
		
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			He's a sincere man to his people.
		
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			وَعَدَمُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْدَمُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ
		
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			عَزَىٰ جَلَىٰ هُوَ أَعْدَمُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَا
		
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			تَعْدَمُوا That which you do not know, that
		
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			which you are not aware of.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then tells us
		
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			in verse 63 أَوَعَجِبْتُمْ أَنْ جَاءَكُمْ ذِكْرٌ مِّنْ
		
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			رَبِّكُمْ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنْكُمْ لِيُنذِرَكُمْ وَلِتَتَّقُوا وَلَعَلَّكُمْ
		
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			تُرْحَمُونَ Do you find it so strange that
		
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			a message should come from your Lord through
		
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			a man in your midst to warn you
		
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			and make you aware of Allah so that
		
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			you may be given mercy?
		
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			Are you amazed at this?
		
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			That Allah will send to you from a
		
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			man from amongst you that would come with
		
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			a message from your Lord and that is
		
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			because as we know the disbelievers would often
		
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			think that this is something foolish or they
		
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			would say that if Allah was going to
		
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			send someone why didn't he send an angel
		
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			or they would say if he was going
		
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			to choose a prophet or messenger why didn't
		
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			he choose one of us meaning from the
		
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			leaders and nobility of our people meaning from
		
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			already from the existing leaders and the most
		
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			noble of the families and so on these
		
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			are all things that we've already touched upon
		
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			throughout the Quran and Tafsir that we've done
		
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			thus far and here again this is exactly
		
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			the same from the very beginning of the
		
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			messenger ships in which Allah has sent messengers
		
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			to the different nations Nuh A.S. has
		
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			been told the same thing they were amazed
		
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			that he would be chosen they were amazed
		
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			that he could claim to be a prophet
		
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			and messenger speaking on behalf of Allah SWT
		
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			and that is why he says to them
		
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			أَوَعَجِبْتُ مَنْ جَاءَكُمْ ذِكْرٌ مِّنْ رَبِّكُمْ Do you
		
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			find it strange that a message should come
		
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			to you from your Lord عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنْكُمْ
		
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			through a man in your own mist لِيُنذِرَكُمْ
		
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			مَلِي تَتَّقُوا وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ that he should warn
		
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			you and make you aware of Allah so
		
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			that you may be given his mercy and
		
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			so he's saying to them how can you
		
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			be amazed at this rather you should see
		
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			this as one of Allah's favors upon you
		
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			and that is why we said before that
		
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			the disbelievers when they see things like this
		
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			what do they do they become preoccupied with
		
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			the how and the why and why him
		
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			and why not me and this is all
		
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			that Shaytan does with them he plays with
		
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			them so that they become immersed in this
		
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			type of discussion whereas the people of pure
		
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			and clean noble hearts what do they see
		
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			they see the great blessing of Allah that
		
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			Allah chose someone that now we actually know
		
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			how to worship our Lord we can find
		
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			a path and a way back to him
		
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			and so they embrace that knowledge and they
		
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			embrace that revelation that is given by their
		
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			Lord and they turn back to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and the final verse we'll
		
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			take today because then the story of Nuh
		
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			which is the next story goes on into
		
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			the next page and is longer but we
		
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			will stop here inshallah ta'ala at the
		
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			end of this verse, verse 64 at the
		
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			end of the story of the Prophet Nuh
		
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			Allah azza wa jal then says speaking about
		
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			the result of the people of Nuh and
		
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			the consequences of their actions and their decisions
		
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			but they called him a liar so we
		
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			saved him and those who were with him
		
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			on the ark and we drowned those who
		
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			rejected our revelations they were willfully blind Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala says that they rejected
		
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			him and we know from elsewhere in the
		
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			Quran that the Prophet Nuh a.s stayed
		
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			amongst his people calling them to Allah for
		
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			950 years as Allah azza wa jal mentions
		
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			in Surah Al-Ankabut 950 years he spent
		
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			calling them to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			but they rejected him and they turned away
		
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			from him so Allah said we saved him
		
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			and those who were with him from the
		
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			believers and the believers it is said from
		
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			amongst his people were very few relatively speaking
		
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			considering that he was calling his people for
		
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			950 years he didn't have a great ummah
		
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			or a big large following of people that
		
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			followed him he had very few people that
		
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			believed in him so Allah azza wa jal
		
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			saved him and those who believed on the
		
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			ark that he was commanded to build and
		
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			inshallah as we go through the Quran we
		
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			will see the different passages in which Allah
		
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			azza wa jal speaks about the ark and
		
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			some of its details and its building and
		
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			so on and how Allah azza wa jal
		
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			commanded Nuh a.s. to also cause to
		
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			embark upon the ark a pair from every
		
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			animal every animal species that they should also
		
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			be part of the ark because Allah azza
		
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			wa jal would then destroy these people وَأَغْرَقْنَا
		
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			الَّذِينَ كَذَبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا how would they be destroyed
		
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			they were drowned Allah azza wa jal sent
		
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			upon the earth floods that would drown all
		
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			of those that didn't believe in the prophet
		
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			Nuh a.s. and that is why everyone
		
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			that came after Nuh a.s. is from
		
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			the progeny of Nuh a.s. and that
		
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			is why you will find in the books
		
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			of history that often he is referred to
		
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			as Al-Abu Thani the second father of
		
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			humankind the first father obviously being Adam a
		
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			.s. he is called the second father of
		
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			humankind for that reason إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْمًا عَمِينًا
		
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			Allah azza wa jal then concludes and says
		
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			these were people who were blind and because
		
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			of that blindness their rejection and turning away
		
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			Allah azza wa jal destroyed them so this
		
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			is already the first example as we see
		
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			here in this passage of a people who
		
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			were told about Tawheed and reminded of the
		
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			signs of Allah and were given a prophet
		
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			and messenger to guide them back to Allah
		
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			azza wa jal and they denied him and
		
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			they rejected him and as a result Allah
		
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			azza wa jal destroyed them and inshallah in
		
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			the next episode we will have another example
		
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			in the story of Hud a.s. and
		
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			his nation the people of Ad but that
		
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			is where we stop for today's episode بارك
		
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			الله فيكم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته