{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_noa01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_noa01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_noa01_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/noa01.htm","summary":"This is a religious narrative text in the Islamic tradition, drawing on Shia hadith sources attributed to imams such as Al-S\u00e2diq and Al-B\u00e2qir, and weaving in direct Quranic citations. It recounts the story of Noah across a nine-hundred-year prophetic mission in which Noah repeatedly called his people to monotheism, was repulsed, and was twice instructed by angels to suspend his calls for destruction and persist in patient preaching \u2014 a drawn-out process the text frames as God's filter for separating sincere believers from hypocrites. The account then details the Ark's construction: built from Indian teak in the location of the future Kufa mosque, measuring 1,200 arms long by 800 wide by 80 deep, assembled by hired laborers who mocked Noah, lit by two pearls calibrated to day and night, and fitted with exactly 129,000 pre-counted nails delivered by Gabriel. A notable theological claim runs throughout \u2014 that kinship carries no weight before God, illustrated by the drowning of Noah's own son and reinforced by a quoted saying that even the imams' intercession is conditional on a believer's obedience and good deeds. The text also makes the distinctive cosmological assertion that the Ark circumnavigated the Kaaba in Mecca during the flood, and that the Holy House alone was spared submersion, linking the Noah narrative directly to Islamic sacred geography.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Noah: The Ar...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2456}