{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_noa03_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_noa03_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_noa03_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/noa03.htm","summary":"This is an Islamic exegetical text (tafsir) in the Shia tradition, offering a devotional commentary on the Quranic accounts of the Prophet Noah (Nuh). It surveys all 28 Quranic chapters mentioning Noah and provides a sustained reading of six chapters where his story appears in full \u2014 Al-A'raf, Hud, Al-Mu'minun, Al-Shu'ara', Al-Qamar, and Nooh \u2014 drawing out their narrative and theological content. The central argument is that Noah's mission exemplifies the pattern of all prophethood: the powerful elite rejected him because his followers were the poor and weak, demanding he exclude them, while Noah insisted his only authority was God's command and his reward came from God alone. The text emphasizes Noah's extraordinary patience across 950 years of preaching by every available method \u2014 day and night, public and private, through promise and warning \u2014 before finally praying for his people's destruction when God confirmed their case was hopeless. A notably distinctive claim is the author's insistence that only interpretations transmitted through \"the Household\" (Ahl al-Bayt) and people of faith are trustworthy, explicitly dismissing other interpretive traditions as unreliable \u2014 a marker of Shia hermeneutical authority. The text reads as a guide for believers, framing the flood narrative as a timeless warning applicable to any community that rejects divine guidance.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Noah: A comp...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":4039}