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THE STORY OF HAZRAT NUH (NOAH) AS

After Hazrat Nuh AS’s people (Noah) had faced the storm and almost all of them had been killed in that storm, Allah Ta’alah ordered Hazrat Nuh AS to start creating pots from clay. Hazrat Nuh AS started making those pots and after some days he had created a lot of them. Then Allah Ta’alah ordered him to break them one by one. Hazrat Nuh AS beseeched that Allah Ta’alah! I made these pots on your command, and now you are ordering me to break them. Allah Ta’alah ordered that My command now is that you break them. So Hazrat Nuh AS broke them, but he felt sad that he had spent so much effort of creating those pots, and then he had to break them. Allah Ta’alah said, “O’ Nuh! You created these pots with your hands on My command. You fell in so much love with them that when I ordered you to destroy them you did not feel like doing it. In your heart, you were hoping that somehow these could be saved as you had fallen in love with them. Did you not see that even though I created all those living beings in your nation, and yet when you said once, “… My Lord, do not leave on earth even a single inhabitant (surviving) out of the disbelievers.” (71:26), I killed them all.

The point was that Hazrat Nuh AS had not created the clay with which he was making those pots, and he wasn’t making those pots out of his own choice, but rather because of Allah Ta’alah’s orders. But he had still got attached to them. Then how much Allah Ta’alah, who has created all the living beings, must love them.