他是努哈·伊本·拉米克、伊本·米陶舍勒赫、伊本·以诺、伊本·雅德、伊本·马哈拉贝勒、伊本·基南、伊本·阿努什、伊本·塞特、人类之父阿丹之子（愿安宁与他同在）。根据有经人（指犹太教徒和基督徒，安拉称他们为有经人，是因为他们受到了启示的经典：《讨拉特》《宰布尔》和《引支勒》。这些名称分别译为“《托拉》《诗篇》和《福音书》”，但现存的这些经典已被篡改。在所有启示经典中，只有《古兰经》original未经更改，保持了启示时的原样）的历史记载…… Note: the last sentence in the original reads "Of the Revealed Books, ONLY the Quran remains exactly as it was revealed" — the faithful rendering follows. Correction of the above, with the stray word removed: 他是努哈·伊本·拉米克、伊本·米陶舍勒赫、伊本·以诺、伊本·雅德、伊本·马哈拉贝勒、伊本·基南、伊本·阿努什、伊本·塞特、人类之父阿丹之子（愿安宁与他同在）。根据有经人（指犹太教徒和基督徒，安拉称他们为有经人，是因为他们受到了启示的经典：《讨拉特》《宰布尔》和《引支勒》。这些名称分别译为“《托拉》《诗篇》和《福音书》”，但现存的这些经典已被篡改。在所有启示经典中，只有《古兰经》保持了启示时的原样）的历史记载……

He was Noah Ibn Lamik, Ibn Mitoshilkh, Ibn Enoch, Ibn yard, Ibn Mahlabeel, Ibn Qinan, Ibn Anoush, Ibn Seth, Ibn Adam the Father of Mankind (PBUH). According to the history of the People of the Book, (refers to the Jews, and Christians, so called by Allah because they received Revealed Books, Taurat, Zabur and Injeel. These names are translated 'Torah, Psalms, and Gospels' respectively, but the books that are extent are corrupt. Of the Revealed Books, ONLY the Quran remains exactly as it was revealed).

从努哈（诺亚）出生到阿丹（亚当）去世之间的时间是146年。（根据《创世记》第5章（新修订标准版），努哈在阿丹去世后126年出生。伊本·阿拔斯传述，先知穆罕默德（PBUH）说："阿丹与努哈之间的时间是十个世纪。"（《圣训实录》）努哈在阿丹被创造（或离开伊甸园）之后1056年出生。因此，这段圣训与来自有经人的上述说法并不矛盾，尽管乍看之下似乎如此。然而，读者应当注意，任何取自有经人的说法或叙述不一定可信。以上内容取自《创世记》第5章。）

The period between the birth of Noah and the death of Adam was 146 years. (According to Genesis 5 (new Revised Standard Version), Noah was born one hundred and twenty six years after the death of Adam. Ibn Abbas narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "The period between Adam and Noah was ten centuries." (Sahih Bukhari, Noah was born 1056 years after Adam's creation (or after he left the Garden of Eden). Thus, this hadith does not contradict the previous statement from the People of the Book as it may first appear to do. The reader should keep in mind, however that any statement or narratives taken from the People of the Book are not necessarily credible. This was taken from Genesis 5).

自努哈的族人世代以来,一直崇拜他们称为神明的偶像。他们相信,这些神明会为他们带来福祉,保护他们免受邪恶的侵害,并满足他们的一切需求。他们依据自己认为这些神明所具有的力量,给偶像取名为瓦德、苏瓦、雅古什、雅欧贾和纳斯尔(这些偶像分别代表男子的力量;变化与美丽;蛮力、敏捷、敏锐的目光与洞察力)。

For many generations Noah's people had been worshipping statues that they called gods. They believed that these gods would bring them good, protect them from evil and provide all their needs. They gave their idols names such as Waddan, Suwa'an, Yaghutha, Ya'auga, and Nasran, (These idols represented, respectively, manly power; mutability, beauty; brute strength, swiftness, sharp sight, insight) according to the power they thought these gods possessed.

安拉至大者启示说:

Allah the Almighty revealed:

"他们(拜偶像者)说:"你们绝不可舍弃你们的神明,绝不可舍弃瓦德、苏瓦、雅古ษ、叶欧格和奈斯尔。"(《古兰经》71:23) Note: the rendering "雅古ษ" contains a stray character; the correct form is: "他们(拜偶像者)说:"你们绝不可舍弃你们的神明,绝不可舍弃瓦德、苏瓦、雅古特、叶欧格和奈斯尔。"(《古兰经》71:23)

"They (idolaters) have said: "You shall not leave your gods nor shall you leave Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth, nor Ya uq nor Nasr (names of the idols)." (CH 71:23 Quran).

原本，这些都是曾与他们生活在一起的善良之人的名字。他们去世后，人们为他们立起雕像，以使他们的事迹被铭记。然而过了一段时间，人们开始崇拜这些雕像。后来的世代甚至不知道当初为何立起它们，他们只知道自己的父辈曾向它们祈祷。偶像崇拜就是这样产生的。由于他们不理解全能的安拉，也不知道安拉会因他们的恶行而惩罚他们，他们变得残忍而败坏。

Originally these were the names of good people who had lived among them. After their deaths, statues of them were erected to keep their memories alive. After sometime, however, people began to worship these statues. Later generations did not even know why they had been erected; they only knew their parents had prayed to them. That is how idol worshipping developed. Since they had no understanding of Allah the Almighty Who would punish them for their evil deeds, they became cruel and immoral.

伊本·阿拔斯解释说："在那些善人去世之后，撒旦诱使他们的族人在善人生前常坐的地方竖立雕像。他们照做了，但这些雕像在随后的世代偏离正道之前并未被崇拜。之后，他们便把这些雕像当作偶像来崇拜。"伊本·吉利尔在其记述中传述道："亚当与努哈之间的时代有一些善人，他们有追随者，并以这些善人为榜样。这些善人去世后，那些效法他们的朋友说：'如果我们为他们塑像，那会使我们在崇拜时更加愉悦，也能让我们想起他们。'于是他们为之塑像。待他们也去世，后人接踵而至，易卜劣厮潜入他们的心中，说：'你们的先人曾崇拜这些雕像，正是借着这种崇拜得到了雨水。'于是他们便崇拜这些雕像。"伊本·艾比·哈提姆记述了这个故事："瓦丹是一位善人，深受他的族人爱戴。"

Ibn Abbas explained: "Following upon the death of those righteous men, Satan inspired their people to erect statues in the places where they used to sit. They did this, but these statues were not worshiped until the coming generations deviated from the right way of life. Then they worshipped them as their idols." In his version, Ibn Jarir narrated: "There were righteous people who lived in the period between Adam and Noah and who had followers who held them as models. After their death, their friends who used to emulate them said: 'If we make statues of them, it will be more pleasing to us in our worship and will remind us of them.' So they built statues of them, and , after they had died and others came after them, Iblis crept into their minds saying:'Your forefathers used to worship them, and through that worship they got rain.' So they worshipped them." Ibn Abi Hatim related this story: "Waddan was a righteous man who was loved by his people.

当他去世后,他们来到他在巴比伦尼亚地的坟墓旁,沉浸在悲痛之中。伊卜利斯看到他们因此人的死亡而悲伤,便乔装成一个人,说:"我看到你们因这个人的死亡而悲伤;我能否为你们制作一尊与他相似的雕像,放在你们的聚会场所,以便你们时时想起他?"他们说:"可以。"于是他制作了一尊与那人相似的雕像。他们把它放在聚会场所,以便借此时时想起他。

When he died, they withdrew to his grave in the land of Babylonia and were overwhelmed by sadness. When Iblis saw their sorrow caused by his death, he disguised himself in the form of a man saying: 'I have seen your sorrow because of this man's death; can I make a statue like him which could be put in your meeting place to make you remember him?' They said: 'Yes.' So he made the statue like him. They put it in their meeting place in order to be reminded of him.

当易卜劣思看到他们对纪念他的热衷时，他说："我能否为你们每个人家中都造一座他的雕像，使他存在于每个人的家中，你们就能纪念他了？"他们同意了。他们的孩子了解并看到了他们所做的事，也了解了他们纪念他而非纪念安拉的做法。于是，第一个被代替安拉而崇拜的偶像是瓦德，即他们所取的这个名字。"这一点的要义是：前面提到的每一座偶像，都曾被某一群人崇拜。据记载，人们最初只是绘制这些人物的图像，随着时代的推移，他们把这些图像制成了雕像，以便完全辨认出其形象；此后，它们便被代替安拉而受到崇拜。

When Iblis saw their interest in remembering him, he said: 'Can I build a statue of him in the home of each one of you so that he would be in everyone's house and you could remember him?' They agreed. Their children learned about and saw what they were doing. They also learned about their remembrance of him instead of Allah. So the first to be worshipped instead of Allah was Waddan, the idol which they named thus." The essence of this point is that every idol from those earlier mentioned was worshipped by a certain group of people. It was mentioned that people made picture sand as the ages passed they made these pictures into statues, so that their forms could be fully recognized; afterwards they were worshipped instead of Allah.

崇拜安拉以外的任何事物，是一场悲剧，它不仅导致自由的丧失，其严重的后果还会波及人的心智并将其摧毁。全能的安拉创造了人和他的心智，心智的目标在于获取知识，其中最重要的一点是：唯有安拉是造物主，其余一切都是崇拜者（奴仆）。因此，不信安拉或以物配主，会导致自由的丧失、心智的毁灭，以及人生崇高目标的缺失。（崇拜安拉以外的事物，人就会沦为撒旦的奴隶，而撒旦本身也是受造物，人又会被自己卑下的品性所驱使。）

Worshipping anything other than Allah is a tragedy that results not only in the loss of freedom; its serious effect reaches man's mind and destroys it as well. Almighty Allah created man and his mind with its purpose set on achieving knowledge the most important of which is that Allah alone is the Creator and all the rest are worshippers (slaves). Therefore, disbelief in Allah, or polytheism, results in the loss of freedom, the destruction of the mind, and the absence of a noble target in life. (By worshipping anything other than Allah, man becomes enslaved to Satan, who is himself a creature and becomes harnessed to his own baser qualities).

在这样的环境中，安拉降下使者努哈，带着祂的启示去到他的族人中间。努哈是唯一一位没有被多神崇拜所导致的人类堕落漩涡所卷入的有思想的人。

Into this environment Allah sent Noah with His message to his people. Noah was the only intellectual not caught in the whirlpool of man's destruction which was caused by polytheism.

安拉出于慈悯，派遣了使者努哈来引导他的民众。努哈是一位出色的演说家，也是一位非常有耐心的人。他向民众指明生命的奥秘和宇宙的奇妙。他指出黑夜如何有规律地接续白昼，而黑夜与白昼这两种相反事物之间的平衡，是万能的造物主安拉为我们的利益而设计的。夜晚带来凉爽与休息，白昼带来温暖并唤醒人们的活动。太阳促进植物生长，使一切动植物得以存活；月亮和星辰则有助于计算时间、辨别方向和季节。他指出，天地的所有权唯独属于造物主。因此，他向民众解释说，神明不可能不止一位。他向他们阐明，恶魔欺骗他们已经很久了，欺骗的时代应当结束了。努哈向他们讲述安拉对人类的尊崇：安拉创造了人，赐予他给养和理智的恩惠。他告诉他们，拜偶像是对理智的窒息般的不义。他警告他们，不要崇拜安拉以外的任何人，并描述了如果他们继续作恶，安拉将降下的可怕惩罚。

Allah in His Mercy sent His messenger Noah to guide his people. Noah was an excellent speaker and a very patient man. He pointed out to his people the mysteries of life and the wonders of the universe. He pointed out how the night is regularly followed by the day and that the balance between these opposites were designed by Allah the Almighty for our good. The night gives coolness and rest while the day gives warmth and awakens activity. The sun encourages growth, keeping all plants and animals alive, while the moon and stars assist in the reckoning of time, direction and seasons. He pointed out that the ownership of the heavens and the earth belongs only to the Divine Creator. Therefore, he explained to this people, there cannot have been more than one deity. He clarified to them how the devil had deceived them for so long and that the time had come for this deceit to stop. Noah spoke to them of Allah's glorification of man, how HE had created him and provided him with sustenance and the blessings of a mind. He told them that idol worshipping was a suffocating injustice to the mind. He warned them not to worship anyone but Allah and described the terrible punishment Allah would mete out if they continued in their evil ways.

人们默默地听着他的话。他的言辞对他们停滞的心智犹如一记震撼，就像一个人正睡在即将倒塌的墙下，却被猛然唤醒。这个人或许会惊慌，甚至会发怒，尽管唤醒他的目的是为了救他。

The people listened to him in silence. His words were a shock to their stagnating minds as it is a shock to a person who is asleep under a wall which is about to fall and who is vigorously awakened. This person may be alarmed and may even become angry although the aim was to save him.

诺亚(Noah)的族人在他发出警告之后分成了两派。他的话触动了弱者、穷人和困苦之人的心，以慈悲抚慰他们的伤痛。至于富人、强者、权贵和统治者，他们以冷漠和怀疑的目光看待这一警告。他们认为，如果一切维持现状，自己会过得更好。于是，他们开始了对诺亚的口舌之战。

Noah's people were divided into two groups after his warning. His words touched the hearts of the weak, the poor, and the miserable and soothed their wounds with its mercy. As for the rich, the strong, the mighty and the rulers they looked upon the warning with cold distrust. They believed they would be better off if things stayed as they were. Therefore they started their war of words against Noah.

首先，他们指责努哈只是和他们一样的凡人。

First they accused Noah of being only human like themselves.

“他族中不信道的首领们说：‘我们看你不过是跟我们一样的人。’”（11:27 古兰经）

“The chiefs of the disbelievers among his people said: "We see you but a man like ourselves."' (Ch 11:27 Quran)

然而,他从未说过别的话。他断言,他确实只是一个人;安拉派遣人类的使者,是因为大地上住的是人类。如果大地上住的是天使,安拉就会派遣天使的使者。多神教徒与努哈之间的争论仍在继续。起初,统治者们以为努哈的号召很快就会自行消失。当他们发现他的号召吸引的是穷人、无助者和普通劳动者时,便开始用言语攻击并讥讽他:"只有穷人、卑微者和没有价值的人跟随你。"安拉至高无上,告诉我们:

He, however, had never said anything other than that. He asserted that, indeed, he was only a human being; Allah had sent a human messenger because the earth was inhabited by humans. If it had been inhabited by angels Allah would have sent an angelic messenger. The contest between the polytheists and Noah continued. the rulers had thought at first that Noah's call would soon fade on its own. When they found that his call attracted the poor, the helpless and common laborers, they started to verbally attack and taunt him: 'You are only followed by the poor, the meek and the worthless.' Allah the Almighty told us:

我确实派遣了努哈去他的民众那里。他说:"我是明白的警告者来到你们面前,你们只应崇拜安拉,我实在为你们担心痛苦之日的刑罚。"他民众中不信道的首领们说:"我们看你不过是和我们一样的人,我们看到跟随你的只是我们中间最卑贱的人,而且他们没有经过思考就跟从了你。我们看不出你们比我们有什么优越之处,实际上我们认为你们是说谎的人。"(CH 11:25-27)

"Indeed We sent Noah to his people (he said): "I have come to you as a plain Warner that you worship none but Allah, surely, I fear for you the torment of a painful Day." the chiefs of the disbeliveers among his people said: "We see you but a man like ourselves, nor do we see any follow you but the meanest among us and they too followed you without thinking. And we do not see in you any merit above us in fact we think you are liars." (CH 11:25-27).

于是，努哈与他族人的头领之间的冲突加剧了。不信道者试图讨价还价：“努哈啊，如果你要我们信你，那就把你的信众赶走吧。他们卑微又贫穷，而我们是精英和富人；信仰不能同时包容我们两者。”努哈听了他族中那些多神崇拜者的话，意识到他们是在固执己见。然而，他的回应十分温和。他向族人解释说，他不能赶走信众，因为他们不是他的客人，而是安拉的客人。努哈恳切地对他们说：

Thus the conflict between Noah and the heads of his people intensified. The disbeliveers tried to bargain: "Listen Noah, if you want us to believe in you, then dismiss your believers. They are meek and poor, while are elite and rich; no faith c an include us both." Noah listened to the heathens of his community and realized they were being obstinate. However, he was gentle in his response. He explained to his people that he could not dismiss the believers as they were not his guests but Allah's. Noah appealed to them:

“我的民啊！我不为此向你们索取财物，我的报酬只在真主那里。我不会赶走那些信道的人。他们必定会见到他们的主，但我看你们是一群愚昧的人。我的民啊！如果我赶走他们，谁能在真主面前帮助我呢？你们难道不加思考吗？我也不对你们说，真主的宝库在我这里，我也不说我知道幽玄之事，更不说我是天使；对于你们所轻视的人，我也不说真主不会赐予他们任何福利——真主最知道他们内心的情况（关于信仰）。如果我这样说，我必定是不义的人。」（《古兰经》11:29-31）

"O my people! I ask of you no wealth for it, my reward is from none but Allah. I am not going to drive away those who have believed. Surely, they are going to meet their Lord, but I see that you are a people that are ignorant. O my people! Who will help me against Allah, if I drove them away? Will you not then give a thought? And I do not say to you that with me are the Treasures of Allah nor that I know the unseen, nor do I say I am an angel, and I do not say of those whom your eyes look down upon that Allah will not bestow any good on them. Allah knows what is in their inner selves (regards to Belief). In that case, I should, indeed be one of the Zalimeen (wrongdoers, oppressors etc)." (Ch 11:29-31 Quran)

诺亚（Noah）以众先知所传的崇高知识驳斥了不信者的论据。这是摆脱个人傲慢与私利的理智逻辑。

Noah refuted the arguments of the disbelievers with the noble knowledge of the prophets. It is the logic of intellect that rids itself of personal pride and interests.

统治者们厌倦了努哈的辩论。安拉至高无上，叙述了他们的态度：

The rulers were tired of Noah's arguments. Allah the Exalted related their attitude:

他们说:"努哈啊!你已经与我们争辩,而且争辩得太久了。如果你是诚实的,就把你威胁我们的降临到我们身上吧。"他说:"只有安拉会降临它,如果祂愿意的话,你们是逃脱不了的。如果安拉想要使你们迷误,那么即使我想要劝告你们,我的劝告也不会对你们有益。祂是你们的主,你们终将回归到祂那里。"

They said: "O Noah! You have disputed with us and much have you prolonged the dispute with us, now bring upon us what you threaten us with, if you are of the truthful." He said: "Only Allah will bring it (the punishment)on you, if He will, and then you will escape not. And my advice will not profit you, even if I wish to give you counsel, if Allah's Will is to keep you astray. He is your Lord! And to Him you shall return." (Ch 11:32-34 Quran)

战斗仍在继续；不信道者与努哈之间的争论变得旷日持久。当不信道者的所有辩驳都已瓦解、他们再无可说之时，便开始粗鲁无礼，辱骂真主的先知。

The battle continued; the arguments between the disbeliveers and Noah became prolonged. When all the refutations of the disbeliveers collapsed and they had no more to say, they began to be rude and insulted Allah's prophet:

www.islambasics.com “他族中的首领说:‘我们确实看见你在明显的迷误之中。’”（古兰经 7:60）

www.islambasics.com “The leaders of his people said: "Verily, we see you in plain error." (Ch 7:60 Quran)

诺亚像众先知一样回应道：

Noah responded in the manner of the prophets:

"我的族人啊！我并没有迷误，但我是全世界的主所派遣的使者！我向你们传达我主的启示，并给你们忠诚的劝告。我从真主那里知道你们所不知道的事。"（古兰经 7:61-62）

"O my people! There is no error in me, but I am a Messenger from the Lord of the Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists)! I convey unto you the Messages of my Lord and give sincere advice to you. And I know from Allah what you know not." (CH 7:61-62 Quran)

努哈不断地呼吁他的人民信仰真主，日复一日，年复一年，一小时接一小时。他日夜不停地劝诫他的人民，召唤他们归向真主，无论是私下里还是公开场合。

Noah continued appealing to his people to believe in Allah hour after hour, day after day year after year. He admonished his people and called them to Allah day and night, in secret and openly.

他为他们举例，阐明安拉的迹象，并展示安拉在造化万物方面的大能。然而，每当他召唤他们归向安拉时，他们便避开他；每当他催促他们向安拉求饶时，他们便把手指塞进耳朵，并骄傲地拒绝听从真理。

HE gave them examples, explained Allah's signs and illustrated Allah's ability in the formation of His creatures. But whenever he called them to Allah, they ran away from him. Whenever he urged them to ask Allah to forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears and became too proud to listen to the truth.

安拉至高无上，讲述了努哈（Noah）所遭遇的情况：

Allah the Almighty related what Noah faced:

"我确已派遣努哈到他的民众那里，说：'你当警告你的民众，在痛苦的刑罚降临他们之前。'他说：'我的民众啊！我确是你们明白的警告者，你们当崇拜独一的真主，敬畏他，服从我，他就会赦宥你们的罪过，并让你们活到一个定期。真主的定期来临的时候，是不能推迟的，假若你们知道的话。'他说：'我的主啊！我确已昼夜召唤我的民众（秘密地和公开地召唤他们接受伊斯兰的一神信仰），但是我的召唤只使他们更加逃避真理。我确实每次召唤他们，以便你宽恕他们，他们就把手指塞进耳朵里，用衣服蒙住自己，坚持（拒绝），并且骄傲自大。然后，我公开地召唤他们；然后，我向他们当众宣讲，又私下里劝导他们，我对他们说：'</reasoning_effort>

"Verily, We sent Noah to his people saying: "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful torment." He said: "O my people! Verily, I am a plain Warner to you, that you should worship Allah alone, be dutiful to Him and obey me, He (Allah) will forgive you of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Verily, the term of Allah when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you but knew." He said: "O my Lord! Verily, I have called my people night and day (secretly and openly to accept the doctrine of Islamic Monotheism), but all my calling added nothing but to their flight from the truth. Verily! Everytime I called unto them that You might forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, and persisted (in their refusal), and magnified themselves in pride. Then verily, I called to them openly (aloud); then verily, I proclaimed to them in public, and I have appealed to them in private, I said to them:

"你们应当向你们的主求饶，他确是至恕的。他将使天空为你们降下丰沛的雨水，以财产和子嗣增添你们的力量，并为你们安排园圃，为你们开辟河流。"你们究竟怎么了，不敬畏真主（的惩罚），也不期望真主的赏赐，你们也不信仰他的独一？而他确已把你们创造成了不同的阶段。（《古兰经》23:13-14）

'Ask forgiveness from your Lord, Verily, He is Oft Forgiving; He will send rain to you in abundance, and give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers." What is the matter with you, that you fear not Allah (His Punishment), and you hope not for reward from Allah or you believe not in His Oneness. While He has created you in different stages. (Ch 23:13-14 Quran)

你们难道没有看到，真主如何层层创造了七重天，在其中使月亮成为光明，使太阳成为明灯吗？真主使你们从土中生长，然后让你们回归于土，再将你们从土中复生。真主为你们铺展大地，使你们能在其中行走于宽阔的道路上。

See you not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another, and has made the moon a light therein and made the sun a lamp? And Allah has brought you forth from the dust of earth. Afterwards He will return you into it (the earth), and bring you forth (again on the Day of Resurrection) Allah has made for you the earth wide spread (an expanse) that you may go about therein broad roads.

诺亚说："我的主啊！他们违抗了我，却追随那些财富和子女只会使他遭受亏损的人。他们策划了一个大阴谋。他们说：'你们不可舍弃你们的神明，不可舍弃瓦德、苏瓦、雅古忒、雅欧格和奈斯尔。'（这些是偶像的名字。）他们确已使许多人迷误。安拉啊！求你不要使不义者（多神论者、作恶者和不信者等）增添什么，只让他们迷误。"他们因罪过而被淹没，然后被送入火中，他们在安拉之外找不到任何援助者。（古兰经 71:1-25）

Noah said: "My Lord! They have disobeyed me, and followed one whose wealth and children give him no increase but only loss. They have plotted a mighty plot. They have said: 'you shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth, nor ya'uq nor Nasr (names of the idols). Indeed they have led many astray. O Allah! Grant no increase to the Zalimeen (polytheists, wrongdoers, and disbeliveers etc) save error." Because of their sins they were drowned, then were made to enter the Fire and they found none to help them instead of Allah. (Ch 71:1-25 Quran).

挪亚继续召唤他的人民信仰安拉，长达九百五十年。安拉至大说：{我确已派遣努哈到他的族人中，他在他们中间住了一千年，减去五十年（召唤他们信仰安拉的独一，并舍弃伪神和其他偶像）。}（古兰经 29:14）

Noah continued to call his people to believe in Allah for nine hundred fifty years. Allah the Almighty said: Indeed We sent Noah to his people and he stayed among them a thousand years less fifty years (inviting them to believe in the Oneness of Allah (Monotheism) and discard the false gods and other deities). (Ch 29:14 Quran)

每一代人都会告诫下一代不要相信努哈，并与他作对。父亲会把自己与努哈之间的事情教给儿子，并嘱咐他长大后要拒绝努哈的号召。他们的天性排斥信从并遵循真理。

It happened that every passing generation admonished the succeeding one not to believe Noah and to wage war against him. the father used to teach his child about the matter that was between himself and Noah and counsel him to reject his call when he reached adulthood. Their natural disposition rejected believing and following the truth.

努哈看到信士的人数没有增加，而不信者的人数却在增长。他为自己的族人感到难过，但他从未陷入绝望。

Noah saw that the number of believers was not increasing, while that of the disbeliveers was. He was sad for his people, but he never reached the point of despair.

有一天，真主启示努哈，除了已经信道的人之外，不会再有人信道。真主启示他不要为那些人悲伤，于是努哈祈求真主毁灭那些不信者。他说：

There came a day when Allah revealed to Noah that no others would believe. Allah inspired him not to grieve for them at which point Noah prayed that the disbeliveers be destroyed. He said:

"我的主啊！求你不要让地上留下一个不信的人。你若让他们留下，他们必迷误你的仆人，他们所生的也必是邪恶的不信道者。"（第71章第27节，《古兰经》）

"My Lord! Leave not one of the disbeliveers on the earth. If you leave them, they will mislead Your slaves and they will beget none but wicked disbeliveers." (Ch 71:27 Quran)

安拉接受了努哈的祈祷，此事已经定案，祂以洪水的形式对不信道者作出了判决。至高无上的安拉命令祂的仆人努哈，在祂的知识与指示下，并在天使的协助下建造一艘方舟。全能的安拉命令道：

Allah accepted Noah's prayer. The case was closed, and He passed His judgment on the disbeliveers in the form of a flood. Allah the Exalted ordered His worshipper Noah to build an ark with His knowledge and instructions and with the help of angels. Almighty Allah commanded:

{"并在我的注视下，依照我的启示造船，不要为那些不义的人向我求情，他们必将被淹死。"}

"And construct the ship under Our Eyes and with Our Inspiration and address Me not on behalf of those who did wrong; they are surely to be drowned." (Ch 11:37 Quran)

努哈选择了城外一处远离大海的地方。他收集木材和工具，日夜不停地开始建造方舟。人们的嘲笑仍在继续："努哈啊！木工活对你来说比先知的职分更有吸引力吗？你为什么要在离大海这么远的地方建造方舟？你是要把它拖到水边，还是要让风替你把它送过去？"努哈回答说："你们将会知道，谁将蒙受羞辱，谁将遭受苦难。"安拉至高无上，如此叙述道：

Noah chose a place outside the city, far from the sea. HE collected wood and tools and began to day and night to build the ark. The people's mockery continued: "O Noah! Does carpentry appeal to you more than prophethood? Why are you building an ark so far from the sea? Are you going to drag it to the water or is the wind going to carry it for you?" Noah replied: "You will come to know who will be put to shame and suffer." Allah the Almighty narrated:

当他建造方舟时,每当他族人的首领从他身边经过,他们都嘲笑他。他说:"如果你们嘲笑我们,那么我们也会像你们嘲笑我们一样嘲笑你们。

"As he was constructing the ship, whenever the chiefs of his people passed by him, they made a mockery of him. He said : "If you mock at us, so do we mock at you likewise for your mocking.

你将会知道，谁将遭受使他蒙受耻辱的刑罚，谁将承受持久的刑罚。（第11章第38-39节，古兰经）

And you will know who it is on whom will come a torment that will cover him with disgrace and on whom will fall a lasting torment." (Ch 11:38-39 Quran)

船造好了,诺亚坐等安拉的命令。安拉启示他:当水从诺亚家的烤炉中奇迹般涌出时,那便是洪水开始的征兆,也是诺亚行动的信号。

The ship was constructed, and Noah sat waiting Allah's command. Allah revealed to him that when water miraculously gushed forth from the oven at Noah's house, that would be the sign of the start of the flood, and the sign for Noah to act.

那可怕的日子终于到来了，诺亚家里的烤炉涌出了水。诺亚急忙打开方舟，召集信士们。他还带上了每一种动物、鸟类和昆虫的一雄一雌。众人看见他把这些生物带上方舟，便放声大笑："诺亚一定是疯了！他要这些动物做什么？"全能的真主叙述道：

The terrible day arrived when the oven at Noah's house overflowed. Noah hurried to open the ark and summon the believers. He also took with him a pair, male and female, of every type of animal, bird and insect. Seeing him taking these creatures to the ark, the people laughed loudly: "Noah must have gone out of his head! What is he going to do with the animals?" Almighty Allah narrated:

“直到我的命令到来，烤炉喷涌出水。我们说：‘你要把每种动物各带一对（雌雄）上船，还有你的家人，除了那些已经注定要受惩罚的人，以及信道的人。’除了少数人之外，没有人信从他。”（第11章 第40节）

“So it was till then there came Our Command and the oven gushed forth (water like fountains from the earth). We said: "Embark therein, of each kind two (male and female), and your family, except him against whom the Word has already gone forth, and those who believe." And none believed him except a few.(Ch 11:40 Quran)

诺亚的妻子不是与他一同信道的人，所以她没有上船；诺亚的一个儿子也没有上船，他暗中不信，只是在诺亚面前假装信仰。同样，大多数人都是不信道的人，没有登上方舟。

Noah's wife was not a believer with him so she did not join him; neither did one of Noah's sons, who was secretly a disbeliever but had pretended faith in front of Noah. Likewise most of the people were disbeliveers and did not go on board.

学者们对与努哈（Noah）同乘方舟的人数看法不一。伊本·阿拔斯（Ibn Abbas）称，同乘者有80位信士；而卡卜·阿赫巴尔（Ka'ab al-Ahbar）则认为有72位信士。

The scholars hold different opinions on the number of those who were with Noah on the ship. Ibn Abbas stated that there were 80 believers while Ka ab al Ahbar held that there were 72 believers.

其他人声称，与努哈（Noah）一同的信士有十人。

Others claimed that there were 10 believers with Noah.

地面的裂缝中涌出水来；没有一道裂缝不在涌水。天空倾盆而下的大雨，其数量是大地上从未见过的。水从天空不断倾泻，同时从裂缝中涌出；一小时又一小时，水位不断上涨。海洋与巨浪涌入了陆地。

Water rose from the cracks in the earth; there was not a crack from which water did not rise. rain poured from the sky in quantities never seen before on earth. Water continued pouring from the sky rising from the cracks; hour after hour the level rose. The seas and waves invaded the land.

地球内部以一种奇异的方式运动，海床突然隆起，淹没了干燥的陆地。大地第一次被淹没。

The interior of the earth moved in a strange way, and the ocean floors lifted suddenly, flooding the dry land. The earth, for the first time was submerged.

安拉这样讲述这件事：他（努哈）说：

Allah told the story thus: He (Noah) said:

奉安拉之名乘坐其上，它的航行与停泊皆由此而定。

"Embark therein in the Name of Allah will be its moving course and its resting anchorage.

“的确，我的主是至宥的，至慈的。”于是，船载着他们在如山的波浪中航行。努哈呼唤他那已经离开（独处一隅）的儿子说：“我的儿啊！你与我们一同登船吧，不要与不信道的人同在。”儿子回答说：“我要去投靠一座山，它会保护我免于洪水。”努哈说：

Surely, my Lord is Oft Forgiving, most Merciful." So it (the ship) sailed with them amidst the waves like mountains, and Noah called out to his son, who had separated himself (apart), "O my son! Embark with us and be not with the disbeliveers." The son replied, "I will betake myself to a mountain, it will save me from the water." Noah said:

"今天，除了蒙受祂怜悯的人，没有人能逃脱安拉的命令。"就在这时，一道波浪隔在他们之间，那儿子便在溺死者之中。（第11章：41-43节）

"This day there is no savior from the Decree of Allah except him on whom He has mercy." And a wave came in between them so he (the son) was among the drowned." (Ch. 11: 41-43)

据传有人说道：

It was said:

"哦,大地啊!吞下你的水;哦,天空啊!停止降雨。"水便退去了,命令也执行了(挪亚的族人被毁灭)。

"O Earth! Swallow up your water, and O sky! Withhold (your rain)." The water was diminished (made to subside) and the Decree (of Allah) was fulfilled (the destruction of the people of Noah).

"它(方舟)停在朱迪山上,有声音说:"滚开吧,不义的民众!"并且有声音说:

And it (the ship) rested on Mount Judi, and it was said: "Away with the people who are Zalimeen (polytheists, and wrongdoing)!" And it was said:

{"哦，努哈！你们带着我的平安与祝福从船上下来吧！你和与你同在的人们之中的一些后代，都将蒙受祝福。但也有一些民族，我将让他们暂时享受今生的乐趣，最终，痛苦的刑罚将从我这里降临到他们身上。"}

"O Noah! Come down (from the ship) with peace from Us and blessings on you and on the people o\who are with you(and on some of their offspring), but (there will be other) people to whom We shall grant their pleasures (for a time), but in the end a painful torment will reach them from Us." (Ch 11:41-48 Quran)

随着神的命令降下，大地恢复了平静，洪水退去，干燥的土地在阳光的照耀下重新闪耀。洪水洗净了大地上的不信者与多神崇拜者。

With the issue of the divine command, calm returned to earth, the water retreated, and the dry land shone once again in the rays of the sun. The flood had cleansed the earth of the disbeliveers and polytheists.

诺亚放出了飞禽和走兽，它们散布到大地上。此后，信士们从船上下来。诺亚将额头贴在地上俯身叩拜。幸存者们生起火，围坐在火旁。船上原本禁止生火，以免引燃船上的木料而将其烧毁。在整个洪水期间，他们没有一人吃过热食。下船之后，有一天禁食，以感谢安拉。

Noah released the birds, and the beats which scattered over the earth. After that the believers disembarked. Noah put his forehead to the ground in prostration. The survivors kindled a fire and sat around it. Lighting a fire had been prohibited on board so as not to ignite the ship's wood and burn it up. None of them had eaten hot food during the entire period of the floor. Following the disembarkation there was a day of fasting in thanks to Allah.

《古兰经》在努哈的故事上拉下了帷幕。我们不知道他与族人之间的事后来如何发展。我们所知道、也能够确定的只是：在临终之际，他嘱咐儿子单独崇拜安拉，之后努哈便去世了。 阿卜杜拉·本·阿慕尔·本·阿绥（愿安拉喜悦他）传述，先知穆罕默德ﷺ说："安拉的使者努哈临终时，劝诫他的儿子们说：'我将给你们深远的教导，命令你们做两件事，也告诫你们不要做两件事。我嘱咐你们信仰唯有安拉才是应受崇拜的主。如果把七层天和七层地放在天平的一边，而把"除安拉外别无应受崇拜的主"这句话放在另一边，后者的分量会比前者重。我告诫你们不要以物配主，也不要骄傲自大。'"（《布哈里圣训实录》）

The Quran draws the curtain on Noah's story. We do not know how his affairs with his people continued. All we know or can ascertain is that on his deathbed he requested his son to worship Allah alone, Noah then passed away. Abdullah Ibn Amr Ibn Al as narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "When the death of the Messenger of Allah Noah approached, he admonished his sons: 'Indeed I would give you far reaching advice, commanding you to do two things, and warning you against doing two things as well. I charge you to believe that there is no god but Allah and that if the seven heavens and the seven earths were put on one side of a scale and the words "there is no god but Allah" were put on the other, the latter would outweigh the former. I warn you against associating partners with Allah and against pride." (Sahih al Bukhari)

有些传述说他的坟墓在麦加的圣寺之中，而另一些传述则说他葬于伊拉克的一座城市巴勒巴克（Baalabak）。

Some traditions said that his grave is in the Scared Mosque in Mecca, while others said that he was buried in Baalabak, a city in Iraq.