Prophet Nuh A.S (Noah):
Part 1
He Was Noah Ibn Lamik, Ibn Mitoshilkh, Ibn Qinan, Ibn Anoush, Ibn Seth, Ibn Adam the Father of Mankind (PBUH).
According to the history of the people of the Book, (refers to the jews, and Christians, so called by Allah because they received Revealed Books, Taurat, ZAbur and Injeel. These names are translated Torah Psalms, and Gospels respectively, but the book that are extent are corrupt. Of the revealed books, only the quran remains exactly as it was revealed).
The period between the birth of Noah and the death of Adam was 146 years. (According to Genesis 5 new revised Standard Version), Noah was born one hundred and twenty six years after death of Adam. Ibn Abbas narrated that the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said, the period between Adam and Noah was ten centuries. ( Sahih Bukhari, Noah was born 1056 years after Adam's creation ( or after he left the garden of Eden). Thus, this hadith does not contradict the previous statement from the people of the book as it may first appear to do. The reader should keep in mind, however that ant statement or narratives taken from the people of the book are not necessarily credible. This was taken from genesis 5.
For many generations Noah's people had been worshipping statues that they called gods. They believed that these gods would bring them good, protect them from evil and provide all their needs. They gave their idols names such as Waddan, Suwa'an, Yaghutha, Ta'auga and Nasran, These idols represented, respectively, manly power, mutability beauty brute strength, swiftness sharp sight, insight, According to the power they thought these gods possessed.
Allah the Almighty revealed; They have said, You shall not leave your gods not shall you leave wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth, nor Yauq nor Nasr(names of the idols)
Originally these were the names of good people who had lived among them. After their deaths, statues of them were were erected to keep their memories alive. After sometime however, people began to worship these statues. Later generations did not even know why they had been erected they only knew their parents had prayed to them. That is how idol worshipping developed. Since they had no understanding of Allah the Almighty who would punish them for their evil deeds, they became cruel and immoral.
Ibn Abbas explained: Following upon the death of those righteous men, Satan inspired their people to erect statues in the places where they used to sit. They did this but these statues were not worshiped until the coming generations deviated from the right wat of life. Then they worshipped them as their idols.
In his version, Ibn Jarir narrated: There were righteous people who lived in the period between Adam and Noah and who had followers who held them as models. After their death their friends who used to emulate them said, if we make statues of them, it will be more pleasing to us in our worship and will remind us of them. So they built statues of them and after they had died and others came after them Iblis crept into their minds saying your forefathers used to worship them and through that worship they got rain. So they worshipped them.
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