Note 38 — DICTIONARY OF ISLĀM. (continued 14)
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Noah stands forth as the preacher of righteousness, builds the ark, and is saved, with his family;38 his character is, however, drawn more from Rabbinical than Biblical sources. The conversations of Noah with the people, and the words with which they mocked him whilst building the ark,39 are the same in Talmudical writings as in the Qurʾān; and both declare that the generation of the flood was punished with boiling water.40 [NOAH.]