Another unbeliever said: “He’s a skillful carpenter. Perhaps, he wants to build a large palace.”
Another unbeliever shouted: “Noah, what are you doing? Where’s the sea?”
The unbelievers laughed and then one of them made fun of Noah: “Noah, don’t forget the sails. The waves will be rough and the wind will be strong!”
The unbelievers laughed Noah and mocked him.
Noah said to the unbelievers: “Some day, we’ll mock you as you are mocking us!”
Building the Ark was difficult. It required lots of patience.
Noah wanted to build a big Ark for he wanted to save the believers and the animals from the flood.
Allah, our Lord, wanted to purify the earth from wickedness, oppression and sins. For this reason, He inspired His messenger Noah (A. S.) to make the Ark to save the good believers.
Allah decided to destroy the unbelievers, for they did not want justice.
It took Noah and the believers many years to build the Ark. They worked quickly and eagerly. However, it took them eighty years to build the Ark.
The Ark was great. Its task was great, too. Noah built it to save both the believers and the animals.
Noah and the believers spared no effort to complete the Ark.
The unbelievers made fun of the Prophet and the believers. They accused them of madness and lowliness. They attacked and persecuted them. However, the believers were full of hope, for they thought that Allah would purify the earth from oppression, aggression and wickedness.
The believers were hopeful because they thought that the flood would purify the earth from sins and crimes and that the earth would be very clean and pure. So they would lead a life of peace and tranquility. Moreover, their children would live in a safe, tranquil society.
The believers bore the abuses of the unbelievers and the hardships of the work of building the great Ark.
WAITING
After eighty-years of continuous work, Prophet Noah and the believers finished building the Ark.
The Ark was ready. It had been pitched and sails had been hoisted.
The believers came to the Ark and looked at it. They thought that it would carry them to a better life and save them from tyranny and oppression.
The Ark had three floors; the bottom floor, the middle floor and the top floor.
All the three floors were supplied with small windows in the forecastle of the Ark. The wheelhouse was in the middle floor.
The Ark was ready. Noah and the believers were waiting for the decision of Allah, The glorified.
The unbelievers harmed the believers very much. They mocked and tortured them.
An old woman with her little daughter came to Noah. She asked him about Salvation Day: “When will Allah save us from the wickedness of the unbelievers?”
Prophet Noah did not know the time of the Salvation Day. So he looked at the sky. Indeed only Allah knew that day.
At that moment, an angel came down from the sky. He said to Prophet Noah: “When water gushes out of the house of the old woman, the time of the flood will be near.”
Noah said to the old woman: “Allah’s specified a sign for the Salvation Day. He has inspired me that water will gush out of your house. The water will be like a fountain. This will be the sign of the Salvation Day.”
The old woman rejoiced at this miracle. The little girl smiled at this hope.
The believers went to the old woman’s house every day. They looked at the place of the water, but there was no water. Prophet Noah also went there. However, the water had not gushed out yet.
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