Prophet Noah called his people to return to the worship of the One True God. He preached the message of Islam among his people for nine hundred years.But in those days when the kuffar passed away, they would instruct their children not to believe in Prophet Noah. In this manner, every generation exhorted the next to commit kufr against Allah.
Allah decided he had to wash the earth clean of humanity’s prevailing sinful nature. Allah then revealed to Prophet Noah that none of his people was going to embrace Islam, except those that already have done so. He was commanded to build a ship.As commanded, Prophet Noah now set upon the task of building the Ark with the help of the small group of believers.
The ship was built according to exact measurements Allah provided him. He built it from teak wood and was coated with a layer of tar. The ship was about 138 metres in length, 23 metres wide, and 14 metres high. It had three decks. The lower deck was for animals, the middle for human beings, and the top deck for birds. It also had a flat roof, and several windows and a door on the side.It took him fifty years to build this ship.
Alla ordered Noah that when he saw a sign to start loading the ark. The sign was seeing water flowing out of an oven made of stones.
It started to rain, and then Noah wife salam noticed water flowing out of the clay-oven. The flood started on 10th Rajab, which was the day they all embarked on the ship of Noah. As a result God made the beasts gathered near the ark.Prophet Noah took a male and female pair of each kind of animal. The believers also went on the ark. The sea rose quickly and covered even the highest mountains – all drowned except for those in the Ark. After forty days Allah commanded the waters to recede and the great ship came to rest “on the mountains El Judi”.
