Islam Rediscovered
19. The Islamic Concept of History
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thousand years the perversion became all
pervading that they were completely distanced
from the path of the Shariah as shown by Adam.
THE AGE OF PERVERSION
God subsequently sent Noah as His messenger. He
was granted an exceptionally long life of nine
hundred and fifty years. During this extended
period, he continued to show people the right path,
generation after generation. But only a few people
heeded his words. The rest persisted in their sinful
ways. Then, in accordance with the ways of God, a
huge flood engulfed them by way of punishment.
Noah and his small band of followers were saved in
a boat, while all the rest were drowned.
At that time, human population was probably
concentrated only in the region of Asia known as
Mesopotamia. The men and women saved in the
wake of this flood settled afterwards in other parts
of the world. Their race multiplied until it spread
over the three continents of Asia, Africa and
Europe.
