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But the people refused to listen to
Nabi
Nuh [a]. They laughed at him,
calling him a mad man. Some
wicked people even beat him, and
threated to kill him. Very few lis-
tened to him and even fewer still
accepted him as the Prophet, the
Guide from Allah.
Among those who refused to
believe him was his very own son.
His name was Kan’an. He was fool-
ish and so very stubborn and when-
ever his father, the Prophet, spoke
he who would go about telling peo-
ple not to listen. Kan’an was truly a
wicked child despite being the son
of a great Prophet.
Nabi
Nuh [a] stayed with his people
for a very long time, nine hundred
and fifty years to be exact, calling
them to Allah. But his people would
not believe, and their stone idols
they simply refused to leave. They
refused to return to Allah and to the
correct way, the way of their father