Transliteration:( Wa laqat taraknaahaa aayatan fahal min muddakir )
"And We certainly left it as a sign. Is there anyone who will take heed [24]?"
✅ [24] The Ark as a Sign
Allah has made the Ark of Hazrat Nuh (AS) a divine symbol of His power and mercy, lasting as a reminder for future generations. The Ark was not only a symbol of salvation for the believers but also serves as a warning for those who reject faith. Some of the Noble Companions of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) witnessed the Ark, showing its continued existence as a physical sign. Alternatively, the invention of ships by Hazrat Nuh (AS) also stands as a lasting reminder of this divine event, with ships serving as symbols of the past punishment and a lesson for those who choose to ignore it. The first interpretation, the Ark itself, is the stronger understanding.
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Please refer to Surah Qamar ayat 9 which provides the complete commentary from verse 9 through 17.
(54:15) And We left the Ark as a Sign.[14] Is there, then, any who will take heed?
14. It may also mean: We left this dreadful punishment as a sign of warning, but in our opinion the preferable meaning is that the Ark was left as a sign of warning. Its resting and existence on a high mountain continued to warn the later generations of the wrath of God for thousand of years and kept on reminding them how the people who had disobeyed God on this earth had met their fall, and how the believers had been rescued from it. Imam Bukhari, Ibn Abi Hatim, Abdur Razzaq and Ibn Jarir have related traditions on the authority of Qatadah saying that at the time the Muslims conquered Iraq and al-Jazirah, this Ark still existed on Mount Judi (and according to a tradition, near the settlement of Baqirda), and the early Muslims had seen it. In the modern times also some people during their flights in the airplanes have sighted an Ark-like object on a peak in this region, which is suspected to be the Ark of Noah, and on the basis of the same, expeditions have been sent from time to time to search it out. For further details, see (Surah Al-Aaraf, ayat 59) note 47; (Surah Houd, ayat 44) note 46, and (Surah Al-Ankabut, ayat 15) note 25.
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