Bright Lights of the Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 10
I' ' 10 KISHTI NUH (Nusrat Jahan Bashir) The Promised Messiah (peace be on him) wrote a book called Kishti Nuh. Nuh is the Arabic word for Noah and Kishti Nuh means Noah's Ark. Noah, peace be on him, was a Prophet of Allah. He told the people of his time not to worship idols but to worship Allah alone. They laughed at him and told him that he was crazy. They hated him and what he said but Allah loved him and comforted him by telling him not to worry. Allah said that he was going to punish the enemies of Noah. He told No ah to build a large ark or boat. People laughed even more when they saw Noah building the ark, but Noah didn 't care. He told the people to belie~e in Allah and save themselves but they wouldn't listen. When the ark was finished, Allah caused it to rain and rain and rain. The water became so high that floods came and drowned everyone who was not in the ark with Noah. But Noah and all those in the ark with him safely rode on the very waves that destroyed those wicked people. During the time of the Promised Messiah, there was a terrible plague that was killing many people. The Promised Messiah had told the people earlier that a plague would come to punish them for their disbelief. Like Noah's people, they did not believe him. Also like Noah, the Promised Messiah said that whoever was in his house would be protected from the plague, just as the followers of Noah were protected from the flood. He said that not only those who actually lived in his home but also those people who followed him and thus were part of his spiritual household would be saved. All of these followers were