In Surah Nuh (71:10), Allah, Al-Ghaffar (The Oft-Forgiving), tells us that Prophet Nuh, peace be upon him, told the people to ask forgiveness from Allah and that indeed He is The Oft-Forgiving. (The ayat actually starts with “Then I said” (meaning Prophet Nuh, peace be upon him.) In the previous ayats, this one and the following ones, Prophet Nuh, peace be upon him, tells us about “his impressive guidance addressing his obdurate and disobedient people by encouraging them and bearing glad tidings to them and promising them that if they desist from committing sins and disbelief, God Almighty will grant them His Bounties and Graciousness. Addressing his Lord, he is saying that he asked them to ask their Oft-Forgiving Lord for forgiveness of their sins.” If they were to do that, the next verse says that Al-Ghaffar would “not only absolves them of their sins, but upon turning toward him they will be granted Bountiful rain from the heaven in abundance and thus they will be granted abundant material and spiritual Bounties.” The next ayat continues outlining more Bounties from Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala. Believing in and fearing Allah provides us with “prosperity in this world and the Hereafter.” According to numerous hadiths, because the people turned away from Prophet Nuh’s, peace be upon him, call, they “were entangled with famine; a large number of their offspring were destroyed; most of their women became sterile.” He told “them that if they believed their afflictions would be removed, but they paid him no heed and persisted in their obduracy and disobedience such that the final torment was sent to them and cause their total perdition.” May Allah forgive us of all our sins and not let us stray from the Straight Path. (See An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur’an, Vol. 18, compiled by a group of Muslim scholars, under the direction of Ayatullah Allamah Al-Hajj Sayyid Kamal Faqih Imani, Accessed from https://www.al-islam.org/enlightening-commentary-light-holy-quran-vol-18/surah-nuh-chapter-71#surah-nuh-verses-10-14

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