 أعوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرهيم وبهين استهين وسلاته وسلامه على خلقه وخاتمه العنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا العولين والآخرين شفي المبنبين رحمة للعالمين وحبيبة إله العالمين ولا حبيبة إلا هو وأهلو على الذي ثم أفسماء بأحمد وفي العردي بأب القاسم محمد ثم سلاته وسلامه على أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المأثومين المدلومين قال الله العديم في محكم كتابه الكريم والقولك الحق ولا استقل قائنه نعوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرهيم إن عرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أنذر قوم كاما قبل أن يعتيهم عذاب اليم قال يا قومي إني لكم نذير مبين أنا أعبد الله واتقوه وأطيعون يغفل لكم من ضنوبكم ويؤخركم إلى عجل مسمى إن أجل الله إذا جاء لا يؤخر لو كنتم تعلمون صدق الله العليه العظيم صلى الله عليه وسلم إن شاء الله سوف نتحدث سبعه سوف نتحدث سبتر 71 القرآن known as ثورة نوح ثورة نوح of course is named after one of the most important prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned within the whole of Quran and who is known to be the first of the أول العزم meaning those most greatest of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى According to narrations of Ahl al-Bayt صلى الله عليه وسلم is known as the first Rasool we go ahead and we take a look and we see that there are 124,000 prophets but according to a narration there are 313 Rasool meaning that there is a differentiation between the term prophet and the term messenger 124,000 prophets we have and 313 messengers every one of the messengers is a prophet but not every one of the prophets are messengers messengers are those prophets who Allah سبحانه وتعالى selects for humanity to present a new sharia to come forth with new legislation and with a specific mission while the other prophets of Allah are those prophets who come they guide, they offer advices they offer wisdom they offer support toward the community that is living the first one of these prophets to come forth with specific legislation and with a specific mission is prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة amongst the messengers of Allah سبحانه وتعالى are Nooh and Ibrahim and Musa and Isa and the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but for instance when we go ahead and take a look amongst those examples who are messenger or who are just prophets we see Adam عليه الصلاة prophet Sheeth the prophets of Bani Israel they don't come and they present new legislation but rather they confirm what the prophets before them presented and they offer advices and wisdom and so on and so forth this prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة is the first messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we go ahead and we take a look and often times when we begin to reflect upon all of the different world religions that we have the western religions Christianity, Judaism and the religion of Islam we always trace back our route toward prophet Ibrahim عليه الصلاة إنه هو القرآن الله سبحانه وتعالى states about Ibrahim إن من شئته لIbrahim that surely from the شئة of Nooh comes Ibrahim meaning that in reality all of the religions can go back and trace their routes to Nooh عليه الصلاة and according to the narrations of Ibrahim الصلاة prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة lives for 2,500 years by the miracle of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he preaches toward his community for 950 years and as we mentioned last night that perhaps Nooh عليه الصلاة at most he has 800 followers in the midst of these 950 years of propagating the message but more authentic narrations and the more common opinion amongst the مفسرين of the whole Qur'an and scholars and theologians within the religion of Islam is that prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة did not have more than 100 followers in the midst of these 950 years according to the narrations that it states that prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة he comes and he begins to preach his message toward a community of 800,000 people only when we go ahead and take a look at this discussion with the latter prophets like Isa, like the Holy Prophet like the people who lived during the time of the Imams of Ahl al Bayt of course population increases as time begins and according to the narrations prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة is the 10th prophet of Allah سبحانه وتعالى his 9 grandfathers were all prophets and he was the 10th prophet Nooh عليه الصلاة is mentioned upwards of 40 times within the whole Qur'an in more than 20 different chapters within the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and chapter 71 of the whole Qur'an that chapter that we want to discuss for the next several nights doesn't necessarily get into the details of the life of prophet Nooh but rather what it does is it presents toward us in majority a conversation between نوح and Allah سبحانه وتعالى the grievances, the complaints the dua of Nooh in the midst of all of this preaching toward the community as we mentioned most of the people rejected him so prophet Nooh was an individual who felt marginalized by his community he thus he spent a lot of the time praying to Allah seeking from Allah سبحانه وتعالى a respite from this particular trial that he was dealing with and the questions of Ahl al-Bait the name of prophet Nooh is not actually نوح his given name was أبدالغفار or أبدالأعلى or أبدالكريم the slave of the all merciful the slave of the all high the slave of the all forgiving and so on and so forth but the name that has been attributed toward him is نوح or نوح as it is found and this title was given to this particular prophet of Allah سبحانه وتعالى for two reasons the first reason is that he would always be weeping and always be grieving for the fact that he was marginalized from his community he would cry and he would weep and he would pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to remove him from this difficulty and a second reason why he would weep and a second reason why he would grieve for the majority of his life no one came to greet him no one came to talk to him he lived a life of isolation but I did not hinder Prophet نوح from making his very best effort to constantly be preaching the message of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the message of the tawheed of God and prophethood and divine legislation further on when we go ahead and take a look very briefly at the history of the life of Prophet نوح and Prophet نوح and they tell us that Prophet نوح's community lived in the outskirts of the city of كوفة كوفة of course is a very important and strategic location toward the school of Ahl al Bayt for it is the capital of the government of أميل المؤمنين and many of us have visited the mosque of كوفة when we have gone for the visit of أميل المؤمنين أميل المؤمنين and when you go toward the mosque of كوفة you go forth and you see that there is a location known as the مقام نبي نوح the place where Prophet نوح used to pray and we go and we perform certain acts of rituals and a'mal and prayers in that particular location furthermore when we go ahead and take a look at the history of Prophet نوح عليه السلام we see that Prophet نوح is buried in the city of نجث he is buried right next to the body of أميل المؤمنين عليه السلام والسلام which is why when we go to the visit of Imam عليه السلام in the visit of أميل المؤمنين at the end of the visit we say and peace be upon you and after that after we conclude the visit of أميل المؤمنين and we say peace be upon those two companions of yours Adam and نوح according to our narrations are buried right next to عليه السلام and after we culminate with the visit it is recommended that whenever we visit any member of the holy household we pray two raka'a prayers and we give the reward toward that individual but when we go toward visiting أميل المؤمنين عليه السلام we are told to pray six raka'a prayers two for أميل المؤمنين two for Adam and two for Prophet نوح عليه السلام and we will go ahead and take a look at certain anecdotes of the life of Prophet نوح we will reflect upon the story of the ark and so on and so forth but for today we want to get a little bit of a glimpse into what exactly is this chapter of the Qur'an all about Surah نوح chapter 71 of the Holy Qur'an very briefly before I get into the text of this particular chapter according to the مفسرين of the Holy Qur'an Surah نوح is revealed in Mecca of course we know that chapters of the Holy Qur'an are separated into two cities of revelation the first city of course is Mecca and the second city is Medina because for the first half of the life of the prophethood of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم for the first 11 years of prophethood he lives in the holy city of Mecca and after that of course as we know he migrates toward the holy city of Medina where he receives the rest of his legislation and when we are going to reflect upon the verses of the Holy Qur'an it is extremely important for us to know where these particular chapters were revealed because they tell us numerous things about what is the essence of those chapter or what is the essence of the verses that is within that particular chapter of the Holy Qur'an for instance whenever we go ahead and we hear that x chapter has been revealed in Mecca we know that in Mecca it is the beginning of the prophetic message thus the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has certain responsibilities which he wants to achieve while he is in Mecca he wants people to stop burying their daughters alive he wants people to leave these aspects of immorality that they had during that period and allow themselves to believe in God allow themselves to stop worshipping idols allow themselves to start giving rights toward their family members to their women or their slaves and so on and so forth verses that were revealed in Mecca focused on God focused on morality focused on etiquette and so on and so forth while when we come to the verses of Medina we see that all of the verses that speak about legislation that speak about law that speak about economy they are all revealed in Medina because this is when the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had established the Islamic state and when I mean the Islamic state I mean the Islamic state of رسول الله the Islamic state of these idiots that are living in the world today and using the name of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that's the verses that are revealed in Medina we come and we see that the holy prophet he instructs people to pray he instructs people to fast he instructs people to go for Hajj and given charity and given homes and so on and so forth best when we go back toward this particular chapter chapter 71 of the whole of Quran it is revealed in Mecca it is either the 8th year after the after the holy prophet proclaims his message or the 9th year and coincidentally or not coincidentally and Mufassarir of the whole of Quran they also state that in terms of the order of revelation is the 71st chapter of the whole of Quran and in terms of order of revelation is also the 71st chapter that was revealed toward the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم let us go ahead and take a look at these verses of the whole of Quran and if you desire to it will be useful for you to follow along with me with your phones or with the whole of Quran in order that we get a little bit of insight into these verses of Allah سبحانه وتعالى chapter 71 of the whole of Quran صورة النوح بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم of course every one of the chapters of the whole of Quran with the exception of chapter 9 begins in the name of Allah the most compassionate the most merciful بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنا أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أمبر قومك من قبل أن يأتيهم أباب عليم الله سبحانه وتعالى begins by stating surely we have sent down نوح toward his community when we go ahead and take a look at this line إنا أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه when it states surely we have revealed surely we have sent down نوح toward his community what does it mean when Allah سبحانه وتعالى sent something there are different groups of theologians who have debated this particular concept within the history of the religion of Islam for instance one group of people they come forth and they say one group of Muslim theologians they come and they state that the Holy Prophet he lives on his throne his throne which is on the seventh heaven and every single time that he desires to give a commandment toward the prophet he leaves the throne he takes a couple of steps and he walks down from the heavens closer toward the earth and he begins to give or present the message toward his prophet whom he has chosen to preach toward the community in the school of Ahlul Bayt of course we reject this concept for we state that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is beyond time he is beyond space he is beyond direction of course Allah سبحانه وتعالى does not sit on a throne but when we do speak about the throne of Allah it's symbolic of the authority of Allah سبحانه وتعالى similarly when Allah سبحانه وتعالى states إن أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه surely we have sent down نوح toward his community we see that نوح preached toward this community of his approximately 800,000 people in the city of Kufa he lived with them for 850 years before toward receiving the message that he should go ahead and preach the message or preach نوهيد toward this group of individuals but how did نوح عليه السلام receive the commandment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى or by extension how did Asa and how did Musa and how did Ibrahim and how did the Holy Prophet receive this instruction to go ahead and preach toward the community now is the time for instance the Holy Prophet he lives for 40 years before he proclaims the message نوح عليه السلام he lives for 850 years before he proclaims the message when we go ahead and take a look for instance at the story of the Holy Prophet we go ahead and we remember the story when the Holy Prophet is sitting in the cave of حره and جبرايل comes toward him and says and so on and so forth and he receives the instruction to go ahead and begin to preach the message on the next day when we come toward the story of نوح عليه السلام or the other prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى perhaps there is an occasion when Allah sends down جبرايل the angel of revelation to go toward the prophets and instruct these prophets to go ahead and preach the message but other times when Allah سبحانه وتعالى states that Allah has sent down Noah toward his community that he preaches the message it is the fact that Allah سبحانه وتعالى he gives him a sense of understanding where he understands that it is now his obligation to go ahead and preach that message of God إنه أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه toward his community أن أنظر قومك من قبل أن يأتيهم أضاب عليهم the responsibility of Noah in this particular moment is to go toward his community and warn them so that they do not receive the punishment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى Question that we need to pose over here is why does Allah سبحانه وتعالى only send Noah to remove this community from the punishments some of my state isn't the responsibility of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to guide people from darkness into light yes that's absolutely the truth but the fact of the matter is that this particular community and ten prophets sent toward them before Noah عليه الصلاة they went and they advised and they for the most part were receptive toward the prophets who had come before but slowly they began to revert back to their old ways of worshiping idols of living a life of complete vice socially, morally with their families, with community politically, economically everything was the antithesis of the morality presented by the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى before Noah عليه الصلاة so when Noah comes toward the community he goes toward them and he says go back and revert back and reflect and know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى he's presented toward you this message with the prophets who preceded me and now I am coming to warn you that if you do not follow the instruction that I am coming to present toward you then you are also going to receive punishment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى we go back to word the verse of the Holy Quran إن عرصنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أنظر قومك أمن قبل أن يأتيهم أدابا عليم surely the punishment of Allah سبحانه وتعالى doesn't come out of nowhere it comes only after a warning and that is something that we need to reflect upon for just a moment when an individual he wants to go and demonstrate his wrath or demonstrate his anger or punish someone for absolutely no reason or without any sort of warning this doesn't say much about that person who wants to inflict the punishment if for instance I get angry at an individual in the community and I just go and decide to throw a punch at him without any sort of warning this has to do with my anger problem and probably with the fact that I have a lot of pride and a lot of jealousy and a lot of animosity toward that individual who I just threw the punch towards or tell him that I'm frustrated by the way that he or she is acting but when Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants to punish any community he admonishes them first he advises them first he sends them prophet after prophet guidance after guidance revelation after revelation warning them, advising them telling them hold on, step back, reflect take a look at this world take a look at all of the blessings that you're dealing with take a step back and begin to reflect so Allah سبحانه وتعالى is giving this community who has been known for vice who has been known for bloodshed who has been known for corruption one more opportunity by sending them prophet Noah prophet Noah عليه السلام إنه عرسلنا نوحاً إلى قومه أن أنظر قومة كامل أن يأتيهم يا قومي إني لكم نذير مبين نوح عليه السلام يذهب إلى قومه و يقول اوه قومي شكراً في هذه first two verses of chapter 71 one of the whole of the Quran 3 times Allah سبحانه وتعالى يتكلم قوم in the Arabic language means community probably in the midst of these last 30 minutes that I've been speaking of this community a hundred times the stress on community in chapter 71 of the whole of the Quran is unique toward this particular chapter why? prophet Noah عليه السلام preached this for 950 years 950 years this community rejects him they marginalize him they mock him, they abuse him they laugh at him they do everything that we can imagine that a community would potentially do but what does Noah do? does he stop? does he give up? does he even complain? he continues pushing striving doing the best that he can to preach the message of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we can't get frustrated with people because they're not receptive toward the message if an individual is not receptive toward you know Islamic practices for instance doesn't mean that automatically reject this person condemn him to hell in that set we can't do that these verses of the whole of the Quran are instructions for all of us when you see a family member a community member they're not religious, they don't come to the mosque they're up to no good, drums, alcohol whatever it may be, you don't give up on people you always offer them the ability to come back you always give them the benefit of the doubt you always provide them excuses because that's what community is all about that's the responsibility of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when they live amongst their when they live in their civilizations how about us when we live in ours isn't it our responsibility to walk in the footsteps of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but just imagine this for one moment Prophet Nuh عليه السلام he comes toward the civilization of his, the society that he's living in and he goes toward them and he says look guys I have been sent down as a prophet I have been sent down as a messenger naturally how many people are going to be receptive tomorrow if Imam al-Mahdi enters into مفر and he says I am Imam al-Zaman follow me, listen to what I have to say you're going to be like come on bro, you got to be kidding me seriously you, you look like this we had a completely different picture of how the Imam is going to look perhaps we didn't know you were going to talk like this to us we didn't know that you were going to act like this dress like this we're going to present all of these numerous excuses to remove burdens from our back naturally people of the past they used to do the same thing when we're reflecting on the whole of the Quran what we need to do is put ourselves in those same footsteps of the people of Prophet Nuh عليه السلام if Prophet Nuh is going to come toward you during that time, we're living during that time we're living our life the way that we're enjoying it we're comfortable and all of a sudden he's like look, this is what you got to do you got to leave these idols and you got to worship God you have to pray, you have to fast you have to go for Hajj, you have to do all of these things what's the potential that the majority of the people are going to be receptive what the Prophet has to say probably the majority of us, probably myself are not going to be receptive toward what this guy has to say but even though that the prophets of the past they always built up years worth of integrity before they began to preach the message Prophet Nuh عليه السلام he goes toward the community after 40 years after 40 years then he goes toward the people of Mecca and Quraish if I were to tell you that there is an army standing behind this mountain would you believe me or no they said oh Muhammad you are you are the truthful one of course we believe you then he says then I am telling you that I am the prophet of God and I ask you to obey me what do the people say after that we believe that an army is behind you but we don't want responsibility we're good where we are we don't need anything else he has built up that integrity the guy lived for 850 years there are people's great grandfathers heard about this guy he's lived for 850 years a miracle of Allah now he's going to live for the next 950 years as you mentioned the narration he lives for 2500 years all of these miracles that are completely evident in front of their eyes what do the people say relax man we don't want responsibility so he goes toward them and he states number 2 he states إني لكم نظير مبين I am telling you and I am advising you that I am a plain manifest warner to you it is my job to warn you it is my job to advise you it is my job to present certain wisdoms toward you how do they respond they begin to laugh at him they begin to mock him they begin to state look we trust your integrity we believe that you're a trustworthy person we believe that you're a moral person but you're 850 years old maybe you're extremely old maybe you know we can't really listen to anymore they present all of these excuses because they don't want to submit to what he has to say and we go ahead and we see that this arrogance has been founded with all of the prophets of the past and we go ahead and take a look at the verses of the Holy Quran the stories of نوح and of Ibrahim and of Musa and of Isa and of the Holy Prophet the prophets they come toward the community and they still reject it they begin to mock they begin to laugh they begin to call Prophet Muhammad a sorcerer a magician a poet when he presents the ayat of the Holy Quran they want to refuse towards submitting toward that and this is a custom of people throughout history that whenever they don't want burden they begin to make jokes for instance some of us we're sitting in the mosque and we hear the sheikh come and tell you the ruling for fasting in regards to this particular point is this and ruling B is this and ruling C is this the first thing when we don't want to submit to it even though we might believe that it's potentially the truth is come on man because Allah really want that from us I don't think that he does or you begin to make fun we begin to make jokes why an individual who's always mocking is an individual who we find demonstrates arrogance over what potentially may be the truth they would go toward preaching toward their communities أمير المؤمنين عليه الصلاة والسلام he would time after time advise toward the community that look I am the one who the holy prophet appointed as a successor they presented excuses because they don't want that burden of أمير المؤمنين to rule over them أمام الباقر أمام الصادق they would go and they would perform the seal of the whole Quran narrations of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم they preach toward the community but everyone presented excuses because they failed to accept the burden let me give you one example on the day of غدير on the day of غدير the holy prophet صلى الله عليه واله he's standing in front of 100,000 people he states the famous lines who ever loves Ali then love him whoever supports Ali then support him whoever is an enemy to Ali then be an enemy to him and so on and so forth everyone is saying everyone is making the dua after that there was one man he looks toward the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he says you have told us to believe in God and leave our idols we left our idols and we believed in God صلى الله عليه وسلم you have advised us that we need to follow you because you are the prophet of God and we followed you صلى الله عليه وسلم you told us to pray and we prayed you told us to fast during the month of Ramadan we fast during the holy month of Ramadan you told us to go for the pilgrimage we went for the pilgrimage you told us to give 20% of our income we've given that to you are you telling us this instruction is it truly coming from God that you have told us that Ali is the successor or is it coming from you at this moment the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم some of the companions they get angry at the man and they are about to scold him about to beat him up the holy prophet tells everyone to calm down and he says everything that I say it comes directly from Allah what's the problem with this man they didn't like the prophets of the past they just didn't want to submit toward it because they were too arrogant to submit toward that particular law that particular legislation at this moment the holy prophet says everything that I say the word of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and when I say that Ali is the successor after me then this is the commandment that God has given me to explain toward you at this moment this individual comes back toward the holy prophet and he says oh God oh Allah if this is truly a commandment from you and let the punishment descend on me right now and kill me at that moment Allah سبحانه وتعالى reveals the first verse of سورة المعارج سأل صائل بأضى بالواقع and at that moment the punishment came from the skies and annihilated that individual arrogance is something very dangerous especially when it comes toward the holy prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when it comes toward the holy Quran when it comes toward the narrations of the people of the house when we have these legislations presented in front of us when we have commandments and instruction of the people of the house presented in front of us we shouldn't be so quick toward jumping to the conclusion of saying you know what this is probably not the law this is probably not religion right we have to be careful we have to state that we believe whatever the people of the house believe the word of Muhammad in everything when we state in a narration that my belief is the belief of Muhammad and his progeny and everything sometimes we don't understand the nature of angels or jinn or heaven or hell or the throne of Allah or all of these different abstract sublime you know context and ideas and concepts when we don't understand we state whatever the holy prophet believes I believe whatever Ali believes I believe whatever Ahdan Bayt they preached that's what I preached this is the steps that we need to take in order to demonstrate our absolute submission toward the divine guides and these are some of the lessons that those individuals during the time of Nuh they fail to submit toward but we have to make sure that we are following suit taking the lessons of the Holy Qur'an and doing our very best to make sure that we are those who submit toward the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the imams of the Ahdan Bayt صلى الله عليه وسلم و we pray ta' Allah سبحانه وتعالى i thafeeq to reflect upon these verses of the Holy Quran from Surat Nuh in the upcoming nights and we pray ta' Allah سبحانه وتعالى for the heesteaning of the reappearance of the imamcą Remove Alhamdulellaha