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Nabi
Nuh [a] opened the enormous
doors of his Ark to those who
believed in Allah and His Prophet.
All those who believed in him and
followed him boarded the Ark. The
unbelievers remained behind. They
stood at a distance laughing and
jeering at the believers. It seemed
so amusing to them to see people
boarding an Ark which stood on dry
land on a cloudless, hot sunny day.
Then, all of a sudden, as if from
nowhere, gigantic dark clouds gath-
ered all around. And with a thunder-
ous crash the waters came pouring
down.
The rains came in great torrents
and soon the whole countryside lay
deep in water. All the houses were
submerged in the deep waters.
Even the tree tops began to disap-
pear as the waters rose higher and
higher. And those, like Kan’an who
tried to save themselves by climb-
ing the tallest trees, disappeared
with them as the waters rose ever
