Ash-Shu'araa (The Poets)

114. “And I am not going to drive away the believers;”

115. “I am naught but a plain warner.”

For judging about others, the present sincere faith and righteous deeds of them should be dealt with. The past actions of persons must not be shown to them.

The prophet’s mission is to improve people and to invite them to Monotheism. They are not responsible for the deeds of individuals:

“Their reckoning is only on my Lord, if you could (but) perceive.”1

Therefore, in this verse, Noah implies that his duty is to be humble for all the seekers of truth.

The verse says:

“And I am not going to drive away the believers;”

This statement is, in fact, an answer to the implicit demand of those wealthy proud people who had demanded Noah to repel and send away those poor people so that they would approach him.

Noah implicitly said that his only duty was to warn people.

The verse says:

“I am naught but a plain warner.”

He who hears this warning of Noah’s and turns back from the deviated path into the Straight Way is his follower, whoever he is and in whatever condition of finance and social conditions he might be.

It is noteworthy that not only Noah, who was an arch prophet, was found fault with this objection, but also the Prophet of Islam (S), who is the seal of the prophets, as well as other prophets were found this fault.

With dark opinion they had, they saw the scenery of those white garmented ones black, and they always demanded him to send them away and to repel them. They said that they disliked the Lord and the prophets who had such servants and followers.

How beautifully the Qur’an says to the Prophet of Islam (S) in Surah Al-Kahf, No. 18, verse 28:

“And keep yourself content with those who call unto their Lord morning and evening seeking His pleasure, and let not your eyes turn, away from them desiring the adornment of the life of the world, and do not obey him whose heart We have made neglectful of Our remembrance and he follows his own low desires, and his affair has become all excess.”

Even in our time, this objection is also about the leaders of the Truth, saying that the majority of their adherents are formed by ‘the oppressed’ and ‘the miserable’.

By this statement of theirs, they want to find fault, while unconsciously they praise them and, hereby, they approve their essentiality.

However, everybody must struggle decisively against the undue proposals and expectations of the arrogant ones.

Rejecting the faithful indigents is not permissible, because the criterion of value is faith, not the social and economical rank.