Saturday, 23 January 2010

"Noah wept for three hundred years"

Wuhaib Ibn Al-Ward said:

لما عاتب الله تعالى نوحا في ابنه ، فأنزل عليه { إِنِّي أَعِظُكَ أَنْ تَكُونَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ } قال : فبكى ثلاث مائة عام حتى صار تحت عينيه مثل الجداول من البكاء

ENGLISH:

"When Allaah rebuked Noah regarding his son, revealing to him: "I give thee counsel, lest thou act like the ignorant!" [Hud: 46], he wept for three hundred years, until underneath his eyes stream like shapes appeared due to his weeping".

NEDERLANDS:

"Toen Allaah de Profeet Noeh ('aleyhi salaam) berispte over zijn zoon, openbarend: "Voorwaar, Ik vermaan je, opdat jij niet tot de jahilien (onwetenden) zult behoren!" [Hud : 46], heeft Noeh 300 jaar lang gehuild, totdat er onder zijn ogen iets verscheen wat lijkt op beekjes wegens zoveel gehuil".

["Mukhtassar Minhajul Qasidien", 319-329].

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