What do you know about Prophet Nuh? And how many lessons do you think we get from Surah Nuh? Keep reading to know more about Surah Nuh themes, reason of revelation, and the lessons learned from the whole story.
prophet Nuh is the Quran’s seventy-first chapter (surah), and it has 28 verses (ayat). It is about the Islamic prophet Nuh, also known as Noah,
and his concern over his people from the Bani Raseb tribe ignoring the warnings given to them by Allah through Nuh.
Noah’s purpose was to warn his people, who had fallen prey to wickedness and evil. Allah SWT assigned Noah the task of preaching to his people,
encouraging them to forsake idolatry and worship only Allah. According to the Quran, Noah’s teaching and prophethood lasted 950 years.
Surah Nuh’s themes include belief in Allah, signs of Allah (the Earth, Sun, Moon), and punishment for denying Allah’s message.
The Quran mentions Nuh’s prophethood in fragments in this Surah. Nuh is Allah’s messenger. When Nuh saw the messages were not being received by the people,
he prayed to Allah, who had prepared to flood the Nuh village at a certain moment?
Allah instructed Nuh to warn the people about the impending flood. Allah sends down water from the heavens to validate Nuh’s word.
The flood was a sign of Allah’s kindness to the faithful in the Quran. It also symbolizes how Allah creates a new beginning for the world.
Because the disbelievers rejected Allah’s word and prophet Nuh, they were drowned in the huge flood.
Both Muhammad and Nuh’s lives are parallel throughout the duration of the revelation of this,
surah as they both struggled with people who won’t embrace the worship of one God.
Surah Nuh was revealed in Mecca, which means that it was revealed while Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) was attempting to establish a Muslim community in Mecca.
The surah was intended to strengthen believers’ belief; it demonstrates that Nuh had problems dealing with the disbelievers of his day before Muhammad (PBUH).
Tanzil claims that it is the seventy-first surah that was revealed from the Quran. It was revealed following the sixteenth surah, An-Nahl, and before the fourteenth surah Ibrahim.
Aside from the fact that Prophet Noah had a whole chapter telling his story, the Quran mentioned him in great positions.
He was praised by Allah among other prophets in multiple verses (ayah) of the Quran. In Surah al-Israa, Allah SWT said:
He was mentioned along with other great Prophets of Allah in this verse too:
Apart from his story was also mentioned in other verses where Allah SWT shows how He bestowed His blessings on Nuh and his descendants for being the doers of good.
And said, ‘Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwāʿ or Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr.’1
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Prophet Nuh (PBUH) spent 950 years of his life urging the same people to believe in Allah without any inaction to obey Allah’s command to him.
He tolerated lots of abuse and harassment just to get those people to listen to what he has to say.
After those 950 years of prophethood, the followers of Nuh were only 80 people. This made him desperate and lost faith in his wicked people.
When he felt that, he turned to Allah SWT and made Dua get him out of his misery.
When Nuh turned to Allah SWT and made Dua never leave these wicked people on earth, Allah listened to him and gave him the final order to break free.
He ordered him to make a huge ship that will carry Nuh and his followers only to leave others to drown.
Of course, no one took Nuh seriously when he started to make the ship. The place they were living in had no water bodies and the idea of the ship sounded bizarre.
Nuh’s people mocked him and said he lost his mind. They didn’t know it was one of Allah’s miracles.
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“And give you an increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.”
(Surah Nuh:12)
The ayat 12 in Surah Nuh is an extension of the previous ones where Allah SWT says:
“And said, ‘Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers”
(Surah Nuh:10-11)
The previous ayat basically showed the benefits of Istighfar. Allah promised us enormous gifts and blessings in money and family when we say “Astaghfirullah”.
Ask Allah to forgive you sincerely, and Allah will shower you with earthly benefits as you prepare for the blessings of the hereafter. You don’t have to request rain.
You don’t request the children or the money. In this world, you don’t have to beg for gardens and rivers. To obtain all of that, you must genuinely say “Astaghfirullah.”
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