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11:46 - He said: "O Noah! he is not of thy family: for his conduct is unrighteous. So ask not of Me
that of which thou hast no knowledge! I give thee counsel lest thou act like the ignorant!" 1540
1540 See n. 5135 above. Like all Prophets of Allah, Noah was kind-hearted, but he is told that there can be no compromise
with evil. And Noah acknowledges the reproof. There was a wife of Noah, who was also an unbelieving woman (lxvi.
10), and she suffered the fate of Unbelievers. (11.46)
11:47 - Noah said: "O my Lord! I do seek refuge with Thee lest I ask Thee for that of which I have
no knowledge. And unless Thou forgive me and have Mercy on me I should indeed be lost!"
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1541 Noah, in his natural affection and respect for ties of relationship, was overcome with human weakness in wishing to
reverse the Decree of Allah. It was not sin but ignorance. His ignorance was corrected by divine inspiration, and he
immediately saw the full Truth, acknowledged his error, and asked for Allah's forgiveness and mercy. This is the
standard set for us all. (11.47)
NOAH‟S WIFE:
66:10 - Allah sets forth for an example to the Unbelievers the wife of Noah and the wife of Lut: they
were (respectively) under two of Our righteous servants but they were false to their
(husbands) and they profited nothing before Allah on their account but were told: "Enter ye the
fire along with (others) that enter!" 554655475548
5546 Read Noah's story in xi. 36-48. Evidently his contemporary world had got so corrupt that it needed a great Flood to
purge it. "None of the people will believe except those who have believed already. So grieve no longer over their evil
deeds." But there were evil ones in his own family. A foolish and undutiful son is mentioned in xi. 42-46. Poor Noah
tried to save him and pray for him as one "of his family"; but the answer came: "he is not of thy family; for his conduct
is unrighteous". We might expect such a son to have a mother like him, and here we are told that it was so. Noah's
wife was also false to the standards of her husband, and perished in this world and in the Hereafter. (66.10)
5547 The wife of Lot has already been mentioned more than once. See xi. 81, and n. 1577; vii. 83, and n. 1051; etc. The
world around her was wicked, and she sympathised with and followed that wicked world, rather than her righteous
husband. She suffered the fate of her wicked world. (66.10)
5548 "Betrayed their husbands": not in sex, but in the vital spiritual matters of truth and conduct. They had the high privilege
of the most intimate relationship with the noblest spirits of their age: but if they failed to rise to the height of their
dignity, their relationship did not save them. They could not plead that they were the wives of pious husbands. They
had to enter Hell like any other wicked women. There is personal responsibility before Allah. One soul cannot claim
the merits of another, any more than one pure soul can be injured by association with a corrupt soul. The pure one
should keep its purity intact. See the next two examples. (66.10)
NUR: See under “Surahs”
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OATHS:
2:27 - Those who break Allah's Covenant after it is ratified and who sunder what Allah has ordered
to be joined and do mischief on earth: These cause loss (only) to themselves.
2:224- And make not Allah's (name) an excuse in your oaths against doing good or acting rightly or
making peace between persons; for Allah is one who heareth and knoweth all things. 251
251 The Arabs had many special kinds of oaths, for each of which they had a special name in their language. Some of
them related to sex matters, and caused misunderstanding, alienation, division, or separation between husband and
wife. This and the following three verses refer to them. In ii. 224 we are first of all told in perfectly general terms that
we are not to make an oath in the name of God an excuse for not doing the right thing when it is pointed out to us, or
for refraining from doing something which will bring people together. If we were swayed by anger or passion or mere
caprice, God knows our inmost hearts, and right conduct and not obstinacy or quibbling is what He demands from us.
(2.224)
2:225 - Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths but for the intention in
your hearts; and He is Oft-Forgiving Most Forbearing. 252
252 It has been held that thoughtless oaths, if there is no intention behind them, can be expiated by an act of charity.
(2.225)
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