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75 ots or ancestors. Combined with the general igno rance which prevailed at that time, this state of mind must have led them to assume that those who displayed extraordinary prowess. or extraordinary wisdom, must, in some way, have been more than human. This was the point where shirk started. the settings up of gods other than Allah. When man's mind evinced a tendency to stumble on this point, and certain undesirable aspects began to develop in the social organism. God raised another. Prophet Noah. . Message of the Second Era:. Revelation of 'Shariah'. This was the beginning of the second stage in civilization. Noah was raised at a time when the human mind had come to have some faint idea in regard to the divine attributes, which explains why the Holy Prophet said that Noah was the first. Prophet to receive a Skariah (moral and spiritual regulations). The Holy Quran also bears out this view. It says: إنَّا أَوْيْنَا إِلَيْكَ كَمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى نُوحٍ واليمين (4:164) atas " i. e. The revelation we have sent down to thee is of the same kind We sent down on Noah. In other words, Noah received the first, revelation