Bismillaah-Hir-Rahamaanir-Raheem

Ek Naī Shuruaat

Taurait : Ḳḥilqat 8:1-22

Allaah taa’alā Nuh^(a.s) ko, aur unke saath jo kashtī par jaanwar the, unko bhulā naheeṅ thā. Allaah taa’alā ne zameen ke upar hawā chalaaī aur saarā paanī zameen ke aṅdar jaanā shuru ho gayā.⁽¹⁾ Baarish pahale hī ruk chukī thī aur zameen se paanī nikalnā baṅd ho gayā thā.⁽²⁾ Zameen par jo paanī jamā thā usko neeche jaane me ek sau pachaas din lage aur tab paanī itnā kam ho gayā ki kashtī waapas zameen par ā gaī.⁽³⁾

Saatweṅ maheene ke sattarweṅ din Nuh^(a.s) kī kashtī Āraaraat ke ek pahaaḍ par jā rukī. (Baarish ke shuru hue ab tak paaṅch maheene ho chuke the.)⁽⁴⁾ Paanī kā zameen ke aṅdar jaanā chaalu rahā aur dasweṅ maheene ke pahale din pahaaḍoṅ ke uprī hisse nazar āne lage.⁽⁵⁾ Chaalees din ke baad Nuh^(a.s) ne kashtī kī khiḍkī ko kholā jo unhone banaaī thī aur⁽⁶⁾ kawwe ko baahar bhejā. Wo zameen ke sukhne ke iṅtazaar me āsmaan par chakkar lagaane lagā.⁽⁷⁾

Nuh^(a.s) ne ek kabutar ko bhī bhejā ye dekhne ke liye ki wo sukhī zameen ḏhuṅḏh paatā hai yā naheeṅ. Wo jaannā chaahte the ki kyā zameen abhī bhī paanī se bharī huī hai?⁽⁸⁾ Kabutar ko āraam karne kī jagah naheeṅ milī kyuṅki paanī ne abhī bhī zameen ko ḏhak rakhā thā islie kabutar kashtī par waapas ā gayā. Nuh^(a.s) ne kabutar ko waapas pakaḍ ke aṅdar biṯhā diyā.⁽⁹⁾ Nuh^(a.s) ne saat din ke iṅtazaar ke baad kabutar ko phir bhejā.⁽¹⁰⁾ Us dopahar kabutar waapas āyā aur uskī choṅch me zaitun kī taazā pattiyaaṅ theeṅ. Nuh^(a.s) ye samajh gae ki zameen par sukhī jagah ab maujud hai.⁽¹¹⁾ Saat dinoṅ ke baad Nuh^(a.s) ne kabutar ko waapas bhejā lekin is baar kabutar waapas naheeṅ āyā.⁽¹²⁾

Us waqt Nuh^(a.s) kī umr cẖah sau ek saal thī. Unhone nae saal ke pahale din kashtī kā darwaazā kholā aur dekhā ki zameen sukh gaī thī.⁽¹³⁾ Dusre maheene ke sattaaeesweṅ din zameen bilkul sukh chukī thī. (Is baaḍh ko shuru hue ek saal aur das din guzar gae the.)⁽¹⁴⁾ Tab Allaah taa’alā ne Nuh^(a.s) se kahā,⁽¹⁵⁾ “Kashtī ko cẖoḍ do aur apnī beewī, beṯoṅ, aur unkī beewiyoṅ ke saath baahar chale jaao,⁽¹⁶⁾ aur un jaanwaroṅ ko bhī baahar le jaao jo tumhaare saath kashtī par haiṅ, har tarah kī chiḍiyaaṅ aur har tarah ke chalne aur reṅgne waale jaanwar. Ye jaanwar apne jaise paidā kareṅge aur zameen ko ābaad kar deṅge.”⁽¹⁷⁾

Nuh^(a.s) apnī beewī, beṯoṅ, aur unkī beewiyoṅ ke saath kashtī se baahar āe.⁽¹⁸⁾ Saare reṅgne waale, chalne waale jaanwar, aur saarī chiḍiyaaṅ ek-ek kar ke kashtī se baahar ā gae.⁽¹⁹⁾ Tab Nuh^(a.s) ne ek ḳḥaas chabutrā banaayā aur kucẖ paak chiḍiyoṅ aur jaanwaroṅ ko us chabutre par qurbaan kiyā aur bhunā huā gosht Allaah taa’alā kī shaan me pesh kiyā.⁽²⁰⁾ Allaah taa’alā ne qurbaanī ko qubul kiyā aur kahā, “Maiṅ ab zameen ko iṅsaanoṅ kī wajah se tabaah aur barbaad naheeṅ karuṅgā, chaahe unke dil bachapne me hī kyuṅ nā bure ho jaaeṅ. Maiṅ ab zameen par jaandaar cheezoṅ ko barbaad naheeṅ karuṅgā jaisā maine ab kiyā hai.⁽²¹⁾ Zameen jab tak baaqī hai tab tak us par fasal lagaane aur kaaṯne kā mausam hogā. Zameen ṯhaṅḏī aur garm rahegī, sardī aur garmī kā mausam hogā, din aur raat hoṅge.”⁽²²⁾