Noah’s Ark True Story in Shi’a Islam
Translated and edited by: Engineer Afsaneh Cooper
Published in www.shubayr.net on January 3, 2017
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Prophet Noah is famous among 124,000 God’s prophet for being the most patient, successful and bravest leader of Humanity. This article is translated over a chapter in a Persian book referenced at the end of this article. 26 References [Shi’a Islamic Books] were used in the book to write this chapter. The paragraphs were displaced to make sure the reader understands the events in order they happened. Since Shi’a Islam is the only true religion remained from God on Earth and other religions due to being fabricated by tyrant politicians were tampered, this article serves those who are looking for the most accurate story of Prophet Noah. Also the article serves those parents and spiritual leaders, who are looking for “lessons learned” historical true story for training their people to have fair, honest, polite, positive, patient and spiritual manners.
Noah and his family
Imam Sadiq (a.s.): ‘Noah lived 2,450 years totally, out of which 850 years were before he becomes a prophet and 900 years were after he became a prophet. Also Noah built his famous Ark in 200 years and he spent 500 years in developing towns after getting off his Ark and ending the flood’.
Imam Ali (a.s.): ‘Noah’s name was Sokn. They call him “Nūh” because he mourned for his tribe 950 years’.
Imam Sadiq (a.s.): ‘Noah’s names were “Abd al-Ghaffar” and “Abd al-A`la”. Noah had three sons: Sam, Ham and Yafth’.
The height of Noah was 360 dhira` (1 dhira`=50-70 cm) or 180 – 252 meters. His clothes material was wool and he lived in the mountain skirt. His food was mainly from plants. Noah’s job was carpentry. He was 460 years old, when his prophethood mission started.
Imam `Asgary said: ‘One day Noah was asleep in his Ark, suddenly a wind blew and his thighs were uncovered. Ham and Yafth (Noah’s sons) ridiculed Noah. Sam (Noah’s son) told them to behave. This matter was repeated a few times. Noah after waking up, cursed Ham and Yafth. Noah asked God to turn all Ham’s loin black and turn the children coming from Yafth with other colors. Therefore all blacks are from Ham’s loin. Turks, Slavs, Qafqaz Moghols and Chinese are from Yafth’s loin. All white skin people are from Sam’s loin. Also Noah prayed for Sam and asked from God that He makes Ham’s and Yafth’s loins obedient to Sam’s children. This was because Sam was very obedient and intimate, but Ham and Yafth were impudent and disobedient’.
Allah said about Noah’s wife in the Qur’an (66:10): ‘Allah sets forth example to those who disbelieve, the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut; they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards them so they availed them naught against Allah, and it was said: Enter both the fire with those who enter’.
Noah’s wife was “Wagheleh” or “Walefeh” or “Waheleh”. She was atheist, because she told people that her husband was only a mad man and when someone wanted to follow Noah, the wife quickly reported that person to the tyrant kings. She also tried to attract Noah’s male guests.
Gabriel ordered Noah to marry Amareh, daughter of Zamran. She would be the first one who would believe in Noah. Sam was the son of Noah and Amareh. Sam was a believer.
Allah & Tyrants
Noah was the first Messenger of God after Idris. He was born after the death of Adam. Noah’s tribe abused him, swore at him and hit him to the level that Noah fainted and when he became conscious, he prayed to Allah, “Oh my God, guide my tribe, as they are idiots”, but people hit him too much that his ears blooded, then they dropped his body half dead next to his house door.
Qur’an (11:36): ‘And it was revealed to Nuh: That none of your people will believe except those who have already believed, therefore do not grieve at what they do’.
Noah cursed his tribe and asked God to make his men and women infertile, that after 40 years, no child was born from the tribe. They also faced with scarcity and calamity. Noah asked his tribe to repent, but they became persistent. In conclusion, Noah’s tribe and their gods faced with God’s wrath and they were drawn in a tsunami or flood. God did not forgive anyone of the Noah’s tribe, while torturing them.
300 years after Noah guided his tribe and they refused him, Noah cursed them, a group of more than 12,000 angles asked him to review his decision. Noah told the angles, he would try guiding his tribe another 300 years, but at the end the tribe did not listen to his guidance. The angles asked him to try another 300 years and Noah did. At the end of the 900 years, God sent Noah a revelation to curse his tribe. Then God ordered him to plant a young date tree. Noah’s tribe ridiculed him, but 50 years passed from the date of the date tree plantation, until it became a strong tree. Then by the order of God, Noah became responsible to work under supervision of Gabriel and build his Ark.
Imam Sadiq: Noah planted the date tree and picked its fruit 10 times one after each other and each time the perdition of his tribe was delayed by God, until his followers divided into three groups of apostates, hypocrites and believers. Each time the number of Noah’s followers decreased until a man from his friends came to him and said: Oh Prophet of God, whether you act as you promise in description of God’s order, or God’s wrath for tribe be postponed, we would not doubt your honesty and it was at this point that God made the special believing companions of Noah with Noah enter, into the Ark.
Imam Sadiq: After 900 years, when Noah became a prophet, Noah’s companions complained about the oppression of tyrants. Gabriel revealed to Noah that God orders your followers to plant the seed of each date they eat and when that tree gave fruit, the time for relief would be near, but since the “relief time” took long, 1/3 of Noah’s followers returned from the monotheist team of Noah. After a while another 1/3 became apostate, the group whom remained came to Noah and they spoke about the “delay of relief” and lack of their belief stability. Noah prayed to God saying, ‘Oh Lord, there is only a small group remained from my companions. I fear that they also perish. This way God revealed to him, ‘my servant, I accepted your pray, start building an Ark’. It took 50 years from the time Noah started building his Ark to the time of the flood.
Imam Baqir: Period is a phenomenon that keeps women away from men for a while. In the age of Noah, women saw their period once a year. A group of women that their number was over 700 of this type, they made up themselves and participated in men’s parties with yellow dresses. God decreased the period of women from one year to one month, so the women’s lust decreases and they do not participate in amusement parties, but the modest women were exempted from this. The sons of women who saw their period once a month, married the daughters of women who saw their period once a year. Then the daughters of these two groups, saw their period once a month too. Therefore for the bad effects of annual period, this phenomenon was taken from women.
Allah’s Order to Noah to Build His Rescue Ark
Allah ordered Noah and made him responsible to work under supervision of Gabriel to build his Ark. The dimension of his Ark were going to be L = 1200 dhira`, W = 800 dhira`, H = 80 dhira` [1 dhira` = 50 – 70 cm] or L=600-840 m, W=400-560 m, H = 40-56 meters. Noah needed help for building his ark until with revelation of God, he told his tribe that everyone, who planes the Ark woods, the remained wood dust be turned to gold and silver for them. With this thought, a group started assisting Noah, but majority of people blamed him that on the dry land away from the sea, he is busy building an Ark. After Ark was built, God ordered Noah to gather the animals around himself using Seryani language, then he put one pair of male and female of each animal in his Ark. Not more than 80 people believed in Noah. Noah completed the plane work and carpentry of the Ark at Kufa Mosque [in Iraq].
Imam Sadiq: Noah built his Ark in 100 years. Then Noah took 8 types of animals, which descended with Adam to Earth, with him to the Ark. Also Noah took a pair (wild and tame) of all types of birds with him. Only 8 people among his tribe followed Noah. Kan`an was the step son of Noah who was drowned.
Prophet Muhammad: ‘When it was time for perdition of Noah’s tribe, God revealed to him to prepare timbers from the teak (black wood) tree. Noah who did not know how, learned from Gabriel how to assemble and build the Ark. Gabriel had a box of 129,000 nails to use in composing the Ark, which Noah used all except 5 nails to build his Ark. One day Noah’s hand hit one of these 5 nails and suddenly a light radiated in the sky, and that nail started talking by God’s order and said: ‘my name is head of all the prophets, Muhammad son of Abdullah’, then Noah hit that nail onto the right side of the Ark and on the highest part of it. The second nail, which was named Head of successors, Ali son of Abitalib, Noah hit to the highest left section of the Ark. The third nail was to the name of Fatima Zahra (daughter of Prophet Muhammad), which Noah hit it next to the first nail and the 4th nail, which was to the name of Hassan son of Ali, he hit next to the second nail, then when Noah’s hand contacted with the 5th nail, while it had a special sparkling and shine, he felt moisture in it. Gabriel told him, ‘this is the moisture of Hussein’s blood, and told the story of oppressions of Hussein’s people and cursed those who martyred him’’.
Noah’s Ark had stories and also included two splits, one split shined like the sun during the day and another split radiated like the moon at night time. Companions of Noah were aware of the times of their prayers very well and Adam accompanied Noah in the Ark. When Noah got off the Ark, he buried Adam under the “Mana Mosque” Minaret. Most narrations say that the grave of Adam was next to Imam Ali’s and Noah’s grave is in Najaf city.
Imam Sadiq: The length of time Noah and his followers stayed in the Ark was 7 nights, but some traditions say this period was 5 or 6 months.
Imam Ali: Goat has a turned tail and exposed genital. This is because, when Noah went to put goat in the Ark, it disobeyed him and Noah had to drop that animal into the Ark, for this reason, half of its tail was cut off. Opposite to goat, ewe has a covered genital, which is because at the time when animals were getting on his Ark, ewe succeeded the others and jumped and Noah caressed its tail. This caused a fat grows at its back.
Allah ordered the Ram Galaxy to shower rain on Earth
When the day of the perdition of Noah’s tribe started, a complete eclipse of the sun happened, shower of rain from the sky started and a lot of springs clamoured. Noah and his followers got in the Ark. Wave rotated Noah’s Ark around itself, meanwhile Noah looked at his son that he was trying to solve this problem and said to his son:
Qur’an (11- 42): ‘Oh my son! Embark with us and be not with the unbelievers. His son answered him, ‘Qur’an (11- 43): I will betake myself for refuge to a mountain that shall protect me from the water. Noah told him, there is no protector today from Allah’s punishment, but He who has mercy. Then Noah cried out to his Lord and said: My Lord! Surely my son is my family, and thy promise is surely true, and thou art the most just of judges’.
God revealed to Noah:
Qur’an (11- 46): ‘Oh Nuh! Surely he is not your family; surely he is (the doer of) other than good deeds, therefore ask not of Me that of which you have no knowledge; surely I admonish you lest you may be of the ignorant’.
Qur’an (11 - 43): ‘and a wave intervened between them, so he was of the drowned’.
Imam Sadiq: “City of Najaf was at first a huge mountain, that Kan’an son of Noah said to him; ‘I will betake myself for refuge to a mountain that shall protect me from the water’, but after disobedience of Kan`an, that mountain broke into pieces and became as flat as “Shām” district. Then in the previous location of the mountain a clamouring sea called “Nei” appeared. After a while that sea was dried out. Then that location became famous as “Jaff” and now a days people call it “Najaf” [in Iraq]”.
After all of them sat in the Ark, God established a type of calmness and intimacy between animals in a way that wolf, sheep, cow and lion were comfortable next to each other. When the number of mice increased in the Ark, God created a pair of cats from the lion’s sneeze to let the mice number decrease. Also with spread of throat pain and cough disease, He created a type of bamboo to create the disease.
Imam Sadiq: The height of the water at the time of Noah was about 15 dhira` {(about 7.50-10.5 m). 1 dhira`= 50-70 cm} higher than all mountains and fields. In storm time, all surface waters except bitter water and sulphurous water obeyed Noah.
Imam Reza: When Noah got in the Ark, God revealed him that in case he was scared of being drowned, he repeats the ‘pure word’; “There is no God except Allah”, 1000 times until he and his companions be saved from perdition. After Noah and his companions got in the ark and they pulled the anchor ropes, suddenly a dreadful storm started blowing and Noah forgot to read the “pure word”. He said in Seryani language, then Ark moved smoothly in its direction and Noah said, I should keep the “pure word” with me, as it saves me from death. For this sake, Noah engraved these words on the bezel of his ring, “There is no God except Allah, 1000 times, Oh Lord guide me to the right path”.
Prophet Muhammad: When tsunami (Flood) water sprinkled and covered the seashores, a mother who was scared for her baby and loved that baby too much, climbed over 1/3 of the high mountain, then continued to 2/3 of the mountain, then eventually reached to the crest of that mountain. When the water covered her neck, she lifted her baby to the top of her head with her hands, but the flood swallowed both of them, and if God wanted to have compassion with Noah’s He would have forgiven that woman and the baby first and He did not.
Wave beats carried Noah Ark to Mecca land (in Saudi Arabia). At that time all over the Earth except “Bayt ullah al-Haram” (in Mecca) was under water. Ark rotated around “Bayt” (in Mecca) some time, and because “Bayt ullah al-Haram” was saved from flood, they called it “Bayt al-`atiq”. It rained none stop for 40 days and Earth springs clamoured. The height of the water was so high that the Ark derricks grounded to sky. Noah prayed for help, then Almighty God ordered the Earth to swallow the flowing water from springs, but the water showered from sky still stayed on the dry land and turned to oceans and seas.
Noah Ark settled on Judi Mountain in Mousel and God revealed Noah:
Qur’an (11 – 48): ‘Oh Nuh! Descend with peace from us and blessings on you and on the people from among those who are with you, and there shall be nations whom we will afford provisions, then a painful punishment from us shall afflict them’.
At that time, Noah accompanied with his 80 companions got off the Ark near Mousel and started building the town of “Samanein”. One of Noah’s daughters accompanied him and her marriage caused increase in her generation. That is why Prophet Muhammad said, “Noah was one of the two primary fathers of humans.
Noah’s Kingdom and Creation of Allah’s Bow
When Noah got off the Ark, God revealed to him, ‘I created my servants to worship and obey me, but they faced with painful torment because they revolted, but I will make this rain bow, which you see in sky now to secure my servants and their countries and whoever takes steps in the “security Circle” can be hopeful to be saved by me.
Imam Sadiq: ‘That famous bow appeared in the sky after Noah’s flood for the creation of “Security Circle” for people, which is best to call it “Allah’s Bow”. The galaxy in the sky called Kebsh or Ram [Qooch] is the primary place, where opened the sky for storm and rain, the rain, which suddenly showered on Earth like a clamoured river. After that galaxy calmed down, the effect of that sudden discharge remained like opened wounds in the sky’.
Imam Sadiq: Nurūz festival was named for the day Noah Ark settled in Judi Mountain.
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Imam Ali: Noah and his companions prayed, while they were sitting because the shake of the clamouring waves could throw them, in the 6 months they stayed in the Ark.
Imam Sadiq: When Noah got off the Ark, started planting date tree. Satan pulled the date tree out with its root. Noah planted another date tree, but Gabriel told him that Satan has pulled out the tree again. Then Noah told Satan: ‘This is my favourite tree. I don’t change my mind re-planting it’. Satan responded, ‘I stop pulling out your date tree, if you give me 2/3 of it’. Noah first opposed this share, but Gabriel directed Noah to accept it. Imam Sadiq continued saying, ‘whenever you prepared date’s or grape’s juice, boil the juice and let 2/3 of it, which is Satan’s share evaporates’. Satan disputed planting of vineyard tree with Noah, first Noah did not agree with 1/3 share with Satan, then he did not agree with ½ share with Satan, until Gabriel dropped a flame in the middle of vineyard tree, which caused 2/3 of that tree burn and whatever was remained was halal and was Noah’s share.
Imam Kazim: God revealed to a few mountains that He would settle Noah’s Ark after the flood next to them on its side, but all of them except Judi Mountain in Mousel, refused accepting it. Therefore Noah’s Ark settled on its side next to Judi Mountain after relief from the flood. Judi is a mountain in Amed district and some people say it is near Mousel Island. Also Judi can be any land, which is exceptionally strong. When Noah’s Ark nose hit to the Judi Mountain, Noah was scared.
Reference:
Qisas al-Anbya`[Stories of the Prophets], written by: Ayatullah Sayid Nimatullah Jazayiri, Hād Publication, Tehran, ISBN 964-5536-19-7. A Persian Book with 28 chapters in 700 pages and 88 Islamic References. Chapter 5 is called, ‘Majesty Noah (peace be upon him)’, which was translated in this Article, then it was re-arranged to be understandable.
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