1. He lived amongst them 950 years, calling them, warning them, enticing and intimidating them, with all the means of advocacy available to them, and they met his preaching with deception and accusation.
2. Every time he talked to them, they would cover their ears and cover their faces with their clothes; so as not to hear anything that their prophet called them to.
3. Their insistence on blasphemy, their reluctance to listen to the right, their evil increased, and their good diminished and this state only made them more reluctant in following the truth.
4. Their plotting against their prophet Noah pbuh and those who believed in him by concealing their plots until they fell into harm’s way; and some of the scholars said that they were planning to kill Noah and bully the people into hurting him and his followers.
(He cried, “My Lord! I have surely called my people day and night, but my calls only made them run farther away.
And whenever I invite them to be forgiven by You, they press their fingers into their ears, cover themselves with their clothes, persist ˹in denial˺, and act very arrogantly.) Nuh 74: 5-7
(˹Eventually, ˺ Noah cried, “My Lord! They have certainly persisted in disobeying me and followed ˹instead˺ those ˹elite˺ whose ˹abundant˺ wealth and children only increase them in loss, and who have devised a tremendous plot, urging ˹their followers˺, ‘Do not abandon your idols—especially Wadd, Suwâ’, Yaghûth, Ya’ûq, and Nasr. Those ˹elite˺ have already led many astray. So ˹O Lord˺, only allow the wrongdoers to stray farther away.”) Nuh 74: 21-23
1. لبث فيهم ألف سنة إلا خمسين عامًا، أي (950سنة)، يدعوهم ويحذرهم وينذرهم ويرغبهم ويرهبهم، بكل وسائل الدعوة المتاحة لديه وهم يقابلون ذلك بالتكذيب والاتهام.
2. كانوا إذا دعاهم أغلقوا آذانهم وغطوا وجوههم بثيابهم؛ لئلا يستمعوا إلى شيء مما يدعوهم إليه نبيهم عليه السلام.
3. إصرارهم على الكفر واستكبارهم عن الاستماع للحق فشرهم ازداد، وخيرهم بعد، ولا تزيد هذه الحالة القوم إلا ضلالًا وضياعًا عن اتباع الحق.
4. مكرهم بنبيهم نوح عليه السلام والذين آمنوا معه بإضمار الكيد لهم حتى يقعوا في الضر، وقال بعض المفسرين إنهم كانوا يدبرون الحيلة لقتل نوح وتحريش الناس على أذاه وأذى أتباعه.
قال الله تعالى: ” قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِي لَيْلاً وَنَهَاراً (5) فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَائي إِلَّا فِرَاراً (6) وَإِنِّي كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوا أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَاسْتَغْشَوْا ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا اسْتِكْبَاراً (7)”
نوح 74: 5-7
وقال الله تعالى: ” قَالَ نُوحٌ رَبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِي وَاتَّبَعُوا مَنْ لَمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُ وَوَلَدُهُ إِلَّا خَسَاراً (21) وَمَكَرُوا مَكْراً كُبَّاراً (22) وَقَالُوا لا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ ،وَلا تَذَرُنَّ وَدّاً وَلا سُوَاعاً وَلا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْراً (23) وَقَدْ أَضَلُّوا كَثِيراً وَلا تَزِدِ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا ضَلالاً”. نوح 74: 21-23