The Role of Noah

THE ROLE OF NOAH It was God’s intervention to stop humanity’s headlong slide into evil. A dam was the first man as well as the first prophet. He and his wife Eve probably settled in presentday Iraq, called Mesopotamia in ancient languages. The descendants of Adam and Eve adhered to the religion of Adam for many generations. Gradually corruption prevailed, and almost all his descendants became involved in polytheism. They made their elders, after their death, their deities. Some of them were called Vadd, Suwa, Yagooth, Yaooq, Nasr etc. Then God sent Prophet Noah to them. He communicated the message of monotheism to these people for a long time, almost 900 years. But only a few believed in him (11:40). According to some traditions, not more than eighty people believed in Prophet Noah, and the rest persisted in polytheism. Prophet Noah adopted all the means of communication. The Quran refers to it as follows, “he spoke to them