And when it became clear to the listener what he ﷺ was in, of high status and great importance that necessitated rebuke for much of the correctness, he longed for the response. He began to clarify it by saying: ﴿He said﴾ meaning: hastening to what is required of him from the perfection of attributes, ﴿My Lord﴾ meaning: O You who is gracious to me. And he emphasized a demonstration to the listeners of his great desire by saying: ﴿Indeed, I seek refuge with You that﴾ meaning: from that ﴿I ask You﴾ [meaning] for anything from the things ﴿of which I have no knowledge﴾, out of etiquette with Your permission and taking admonition from Your advice and rising to what You have elevated me to of high rank and exalted status. ﴿And unless You forgive me﴾ meaning: now and in the future, ﴿and have mercy on me﴾ meaning: cover my faults and erase them and honor me, ﴿I would be among the losers﴾ meaning: those deeply entrenched in loss. So it was as if it was said: What was responded to regarding that? It was said: ﴿It was said﴾ in the passive form to indicate the greatness and majesty for which great matters are for His sake with the slightest indication: ﴿O Noah, descend﴾ meaning: from the ship ﴿in peace﴾ meaning: with great peace ﴿from Us﴾ meaning: and whoever We have greeted, then no calamity will befall him ﴿and blessings﴾ meaning: abundant and great good ﴿upon you﴾ meaning: specifically for you ﴿and upon nations﴾ that arise ﴿from those with you﴾ due to their being upon what pleases Us, and We do not grant them enjoyment of the world except for a little, and for them when they return to Us is an everlasting bliss. And this statement includes every believer, male and female, until the Day of Resurrection. ﴿And nations﴾ meaning: from them ﴿We will grant them enjoyment﴾ in the world with abundance in provision and ease in living according to Our knowledge and will, and there will be no blessings upon them from Us nor peace. The verse is from the context of implication: (p-297) it mentioned blessings and peace first as evidence for their negation second, and enjoyment second as evidence for its omission first. ﴿Then We will touch them from Us﴾ meaning: in both abodes or in the Hereafter or in both ﴿a painful punishment﴾ for their following other than Our guidance and their audacity upon what angers Us. And it is permissible that ﴿And nations﴾ is a subject without a specified omitted attribute, and the justification for the beginning is that the status is a status of preference; and seeking refuge is the request for safety by that which prevents from evil; and blessing is the establishment of good with its growth, state after state, and its origin is establishment, and from it is the growth and blessing for the establishment of water in it.

The mention of the story of Noah, peace be upon him, from the Torah. He is Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Metushalakh, the son of Khunukh, the son of Yarad, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Qinan, the son of Anush, the son of Sheeth, the son of Adam, peace be upon him. This is because in the early parts of the first book of it: And indeed Adam approached his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and he named him Sheeth. He said: Now Allah has replaced for me another offspring instead of Habil, whom Qabil killed. This was after Adam lived for one hundred and thirty years. The total lifespan of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years. Sheeth lived for one hundred and five years, and Anush was born to him. The total lifespan of Sheeth was nine hundred and twelve years. Anush lived for ninety years, and Qinan was born to him. The total lifespan of Anush was nine hundred and five years. Qinan lived for seventy years, and Mahalalel was born to him. The total lifespan of Qinan was nine hundred and twenty years. Mahalalel lived for sixty-five years, and Yarad was born to him. The total lifespan of Yarad was nine hundred and sixty-two years. Yarad lived for sixty-two years, and Khunukh was born to him. The total lifespan of Khunukh was three hundred and sixty-five years. Khunukh lived for sixty-five years, and Metushalakh was born to him. The total lifespan of Metushalakh was nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Metushalakh lived for one hundred and seventy-eight years, and Lamech was born to him. The total lifespan of Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years. Lamech lived for one hundred and eighty-two years, and a son was born to him, and he named him Noah. Then he said: This will relieve us from our labor and toil in the cursed land. The total days of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven years. Noah lived five hundred years. Noah had sons: Sam, Ham, and Yafith. When people began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of the nobles among them looked at the daughters of the common people, and they were very beautiful. So they took for themselves women from among those whom they chose and loved. Then Allah said at that time: My mercy and compassion do not apply to these people because they follow the desires of the flesh. There were giants on the earth in those days and afterward, because the sons of the nobles mingled with the daughters of the common people, and giants were born to them, known as mighty men. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man had become great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually. So the Lord said: Shall I not destroy those whom I have created from the face of the earth, from man and beast, even the creeping things and the birds of the air? And Noah found favor with the Lord. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah: The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them. Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. Then the Lord said to Noah: Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth. For after seven more days, I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I made. And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark. They and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in. Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground, both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. He also sent out from himself a dove to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. And the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. Then God spoke to Noah, saying: Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth. So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart: I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. But you shall not eat flesh with the life of its meat, that is, its blood. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply in it. Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. And God said to Noah: This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth. Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren. And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations. The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines). Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth; the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite; the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite; the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed. And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations. And children were born to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations. These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.