قَالَ وَمَا عِلْمِي بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ (112) إِنْ حِسَابُهُمْ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّي ۖ لَوْ تَشْعُرُونَ (113) وَمَا أَنَا بِطَارِدِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (114) إِنْ أَنَا إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ (115) قَالُوا لَئِن لَّمْ تَنتَهِ يَا نُوحُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمَرْجُومِينَ (116) قَالَ رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي كَذَّبُونِ (117) فَافْتَحْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُمْ فَتْحًا وَنَجِّنِي وَمَن مَّعِيَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (118) فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَمَن مَّعَهُ فِي الْفُلْكِ الْمَشْحُونِ (119) ثُمَّ أَغْرَقْنَا بَعْدُ الْبَاقِينَ (120) إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً ۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ (121) وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ (122) كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌ الْمُرْسَلِينَ (123) إِذْ قَالَ لَهُمْ أَخُوهُمْ هُودٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ (124) إِنِّي لَكُمْ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٌ (125) فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ (126) وَمَا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ (127) أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ آيَةً تَعْبَثُونَ (128) وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَخْلُدُونَ (129) وَإِذَا بَطَشْتُم بَطَشْتُمْ جَبَّارِينَ (130) فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ (131) وَاتَّقُوا الَّذِي أَمَدَّكُم بِمَا تَعْلَمُونَ (132) أَمَدَّكُم بِأَنْعَامٍ وَبَنِينَ (133) وَجَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ (134) إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ (135) قَالُوا سَوَاءٌ عَلَيْنَا أَوَعَظْتَ أَمْ لَمْ تَكُن مِّنَ الْوَاعِظِينَ (136)He said, “I have no knowledge of what they used to do.” (112) Their reckoning is only with my Lord - if only you could sense it (113) And I do not persecute the believers (114) Indeed, I am only a clear warner (115) They said, “If you do not desist, O Noah, you will certainly be among those who are stoned.” (116) Oh, my Lord, “Indeed, my people are liars.” (117) So, open a victory between me and them and save me and those with me of the believers (118) So we gave it to him and whoever with him in the aromatic ark (119) and then we were immersed after the rest (120), because in that there is no one, and there is no one, And indeed, your Lord is Almighty, Most Merciful. (122) Aad denied the messengers. (123) When their brother Hud said to them, “Do you not fear (124) Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy Messenger (125) So fear God and obey me (126) and I ask you no reward for it. My reward is only upon the Lord of the worlds (127) Do you build with every rent a sign in vain (128) and you take places that you may immortal? (129) And if you have cruelled you have been cruelling to tyrants (130) So fear Allah and obey me (131) And fear Him who has provided you with what you know (132) He provided you with livestock and children (133) and gardens and springs (134) Indeed, I fear for you the torment of a Great Day. (135) They said, “Whether you have preached to us or not is not one of the admonitions?” (136)
The Interpretation of Imam al-Tabari - may God have mercy on him -
Noah said to his people: I do not know what my followers were doing. Rather, I have among them the outward matter of their affairs, not the inward, and I have not been entrusted with knowledge of their inward matters. Rather, I have been entrusted with the outward, so whoever shows good, I think he is good, and whoever shows bad, I think he is bad.
(Their account is only with my Lord, if only you could understand.) He said: He knows best what is in their souls, And I will not repel anyone who believes in God and follows me in believing in what I have brought from God.
I am only a warner to you from your Lord, warning you of His punishment, and His power over your disbelief in Him is clear: He says: A warner has made clear to you his warning, and has not concealed his advice from you.
Noah said to his people: If you, O Noah, do not stop what you say, call for, and criticize our gods for, you will be among those who are reviled. He said: We will revile you.
My Lord, my people have denied what I have given them of the truth from You, and they rejected my advice to them.
Muammar told us, on the authority of Qatada, in his saying: (So, make an opening between me and them) He said: So, judge between me and them.
So We saved him and those with him in the loaded ark.) He says: So, We saved Noah and those with him of the believers - when We conquered between them and their people, and We sent down Our punishment upon the disbelieving people - in the loaded ark, meaning in the venerable, full ark.
Then We drowned after the rest of his people who denied him and rejected his advice.
And most of your people did not believe you because God had previously decreed that they would not believe.
(And indeed, your Lord is All-Mighty) in His vengeance on those who disbelieve in Him and disobey His command (the Most Merciful) to those who repent among them, to punish them after their repentance.
(Ad denied) God's messengers to them.
(When their brother Hud said to them, “Do you not fear Him?”) God’s punishment for your disbelief in Him.
(Indeed, I am a messenger to you) from my Lord commanding you to obey Him and warning you against your disbelief in His punishment. (Amen) to His revelation and message.
(So fear God) by obeying Him and obeying what He commands you and forbids you. (And obey) what He commands you to do of fearing God and warning you of His power.
My reward and reward for my advice to you is only from the Lord of the Worlds.
Do you build with all reaa a sign in vain? (And reaa: every high place on earth, a high place, or a road, or a valley.
And you build factories that you may immortalize. He said: This is an interrogative. He says: Perhaps you will immortalize when you build these things?
If you rob, you will be robbed, killed with swords, and beaten with whips.
God Almighty says, telling him about what Hud said to his people from Ad: Fear God’s punishment, O people, by obeying Him in what He commands you and prohibits you, and refrain from amusement and play, and oppressing people, and subjugating them through conquest and corruption on earth.
And beware of the wrath of the One who gave you what you know from Him.
And I will help you with it among the livestock and children, orchards and rivers.
(Indeed, I fear for you the torment of a Day) from God (great).
God Almighty says: Ad said to their Prophet Hud, may God bless him and grant him peace: Your preaching to us is moderate among us, but your abandonment of exhortation, we will not believe you and we will not believe you for what you have brought to us.
A view around the verses
We agreed in the previous page of Surah Ash-Shu’ara’ that the noblest people were among the people of Noah - they refused to be with the most base people (so they claimed) On the same page, and if you observed what happened in previous nations, you will find it in its entirety in the nation of Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - with minor differences or different names, make us a day and they are a day or something else, and it is arrogance. It also seems that all the heavenly religions came with the idea of equality, so there is no superiority of prince over the guard except through piety.
He said, “How I know what they were doing?”
Noah - peace be upon him - had nothing to do with what the believers did while they were not with him, and this is what should be, from the core of our religion (Islam): We have the apparent and God takes care of the secrets, and it seems that it is also an idea of heavenly religions and God is Most High and Most Knowing.
Their reckoning is only with my Lord - if only you could sense it (113)
Noah - peace be upon him - returned the whole matter to God - Blessed and Most High - and said to the noblest of the people that the judgment of these weak believers is upon God - Blessed and Most High - for only the causes and consequences are upon God, and upon Him is the conveyance and upon God is the reckoning. This is how all the prophets are.
And I do not chase the believers (114) - I am only a clear warner (115)
An honorable statement is that he will not expel believers from elite councils just because they are not among the highest ranks of the people, and he reminded them that he is merely a clear warner, and he has no control over the matter.
They said, “If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be among those who are stoned.” (116)
We agreed in the story of Moses and Pharaoh: whenever the idea died down, the serious argument died down, and insults, cursing, and perhaps fist-fighting appeared, and here is an explicit threat of what would befall Noah - peace be upon him - for no reason other than because it did not come down to their desire to expel the believers, and their obstinacy in believing in him and in God, Lord. The worlds.
He said, “My Lord, indeed my people are liars me (117) So open a victory between me and them, save me and those who are with me of the believers. (118)
In other verses from another surah: Noah says that he called his people night and day in secret and in public, in groups and individually. So, his saying: “My Lord, my people are liars me” came after at least 900 years of calling to God with insight, since he reached forty and after that he received the message while he died while still old. 950 years, what do I mean? I mean: The preacher, religious scholar, or sheikh in the mosque call for God for 20 years and thinks that God must punish the liars who did not respond to his call, so he called to God, not for them this time, but over them.
What is the conquest, then? God’s victory in punishing the stubborn unbelievers, and God’s reward for the believers
So We saved him and those with him in the loaded ship (119) Then We drowned after the rest (120)
So salvation came to Noah - peace be upon him - in the ark in which he spent his life building in a barren desert. Whenever the people passed by him, they mocked him, because there was no water, no sea, or anything else. But when God’s command came, water came down from the sky in abundance and the earth produced water, Even the ovens water came out, and the ship sailed with God’s blessing, and the unbelievers drowned, and the story of Noah - peace be upon him - ended.
Indeed, in that is a sign. And most of them are not believers. (121) And indeed, your Lord is the Mighty, the Most Merciful. (122)
For those who ask about what are the signs of God that we are not supposed to lie about so that the painful torment does not afflict us, here is the story of Noah - peace be upon him - calling us to know that everything has an end, and that the outcome is for the believers, and that God’s granting of respite to the disobedient and the unbelievers is not due to negligence - God forbid - But God Almighty has a timing different from ours.
The story of Noah - peace be upon him - has ended and we can benefit from it as follows:
1 - Patience, then patience, then patience with the invitation. Do not say, “I called so-and-so, and he did not respond to me.” Who are you? Have you called this guy or girl for twenty whole years, or even thirty or more, and he has not changed? Kill him, extend your hand to kill, he did not respond, and do not take the story of Noah as if you heard it one day.
2 - The paper (exam paper) was withdrawn from Noah - peace be upon him - after 950 years, of which he spent no less than 910 years working and striving for the moment the paper was handed over, You, I, and we will withdraw our paper at any time. Perhaps we will have work that we did for God in secret and not in public. Noah would call upon his people night and day, in secret and in public.
3 - The story of Noah - peace be upon him - taught us that there is no despair with life, for life has its own laws owned by God - the Almighty - whoever believes in Him believes in Him, associates whoever associates Him with polytheism, and disbelieves whoever disbelieves there is no increase or decrease in the kingdom of God - glory be to Him - Most importantly: you are tested. You knew: Did you have patience with the disobedient, as Noah, peace be upon him?
4 - The story of Noah - peace be upon him - taught us that you cannot guide the one you love, even if you spend a lifetime with this beloved, because his son died as an infidel, and his wife died as an infidel, and they were with him all the time.
5 - God - glory be to Him - has a timing and we have a timing. We work hard and wait for the reward, and God looks and looks and looks at our work, then the reward or punishment comes. Among the attributes of God - the Almighty (forbearance and patience) and among the attributes of us humans are (haste).
6 - Finally: The story of Noah - peace be upon him - taught us certainty in God - the Almighty - as did our master Moses - peace be upon him. There is no point in him building an ark on desert land and for years the people mocked him and said, as all the infidels said, that you are crazy, and he did not deny himself at all.
It is said: If patience is half of faith, and gratitude is the other half, then certainty = all faith... If you are not certain that you will be victorious, even after a while: review your faith, for God - the Almighty - only deals with those who are certain in Him, Glory be to Him (I am as my servant thinks of me. (Pray while you are certain of the answer) and others.
Aad denied the messengers (123)
Aad lied and what do you know about Ad? Aad is a tall people, their appearance is beautiful, their clothes are well-groomed, and they have knowledge of construction that no one else knows. Do you remember with me the four temptations of the world that rarely anyone escapes from (money - beauty - power - knowledge) God Almighty said about architecture in the life of Aad: (The likes of which has not been created in the country) It is an unaffected testimony. This is the testimony of God - glory be to Him, from His exaltation - how much do you give them a score out of 4, passing through these four temptations (with them: money + knowledge, and perhaps power and beauty) so rarely anyone escapes from them, and this is what happened.
When their brother Hud said to them, “Do you not fear Allah?” (124)
All the prophets came to their people of their own kind, human beings who knew them and who knew him. He lived among them for 40 years before the message, which is not a young age for them to have judged this person if he was good or evil, lying or truthful. There is a famous story about a president of one of the Western countries: He asked to have a personal assistant in the presidency. They brought him a picture of a well-qualified person. He said to them: I don’t like him. They said: What is his fault in his appearance? He said to them: A person before forty is responsible for his appearance after forty, and this is great wisdom. So, their brother Hud knows them, and they know him, so what is the matter with people today who worship gods they do not know, and worship those who are not of their kind, such as scientific robots, for example? This is a strange analogy.
Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger (125)
The word (I am) contains emphasis, as it is a stressed noun: that is, make sure that I am a messenger from God and trustworthy of this message.
So, fear God and obey me (126) and I ask you no reward for it. My reward is only upon the Lord of the worlds (127)
All the prophets say (Fear God and obey me in the message I have brought to you) and this is not a reward that I will take from you. My reward is only from God, Lord of the worlds.
Do you build in every high place: a sign that you are tampering (128)
Every honorable place on earth is a hill, a road or a valley, and it is a disapproving question from Hud - peace be upon him - to his people: Why? Do you remember what our master Omar Ibn Al-Khattab said to one of them: Whenever you desire, you buy? Is this his goal - peace be upon him? What they are doing is a kind of construction - investment - arts - civilization, so God is Most High and Most Knowing: He wants to say to them: Have you forgotten that there is an afterlife and lived only in this world until you did not leave a single valley without reconstruction? Of course, God knows. What He means for His servants in this verse
And you take places in which you may live forever. (129) And when when you are oppressed, you have been cruel to tyrants (130) (130)
It seems that it was not only a building, but also fortresses and citadels, so its meaning here is: fortresses, so why do you build fortresses except for the idea of eternity on earth, the diabolical idea that Satan came up with millions of years ago, when he deceived Adam and Eve into immortality on earth, and it seems that this idea (The idea of immortality) is an idea as old as time immemorial, modern, contemporary, and perhaps future, and the civilized person: the more he builds and ages and increases and develops in the things around him, the more his nature softens and his soul calms down, as he achieves what he wants in this life - of course: this is how it should be - but money overwhelms a person and he feels that no destruction will ever befall him, so oppression is in a tremendous way. And God - the Almighty - has many beautiful names, and they are not just names, but names according to their correct names, and He has in them what is called the names of majesty, and what is called the names of beauty.
As for the names of glory
It is like the tyrant - the oppressor - the arrogant... etc. And whoever tries to dispute with God over it, He will throw him into Hell and do not care about his eternity in it.
As for the names of beauty
It is like the Generous, the Forgiving, theForbearing, etc. He loves His servants to be characterized by it
So, it committed what God does not like: love of eternity + tyranny on earth.
So, fear Allah and obey me (131) And fear Him who has provided you with what you know (132) provide you with livestock and children (133) and gardens and springs (134) Indeed, I fear for you the torment of a terrible day (135)
So he reminded them of obedience to God - the Almighty - and piety means to put a distance between you and God’s punishment and a barrier like an umbrella that protects you from the rain. So he said to them: Fear the blessings of God (who has provided you with cattle and children for what you do), and they are blessings, and it was said about blessings: They have wings, so take the story of the blessing that You have it and bind it with gratitude, otherwise it will leave to a strange place and will never return to you again.
Imagine the scene with me
Architectures - carved mountains, gardens and watery springs inside the gardens, palaces, money, livestock, boys and not girls...they have the right to be arrogant, right? Then he reminded them that he was afraid of a bad outcome for them, that he did not want any reward or gratitude.
They said, “It is all the same to us whether you have preached or not been one of the preachers.” (136)
Sermon: is advice with a reminder of the consequences. As for advice: it comes from the heart and reaches the heart without a reminder of the consequences, and they called it a sermon. It seems that the matter came to mind, because they did not intend to believe in Hud - peace be upon him -.