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In verse 14 of [[ | In verse 14 of [[Quran 29]]<ref>Certainly We sent Noah to his people, and he remained with them for thousand-less-fifty years. Then the flood overtook them while they were wrongdoers.</ref>, the glorious Qur'an mentions that Noah (a) was inviting his people for 950 years before flood, but it did not mention his whole lifespan. So the length of Noah's (a) life is one of the disputed issues in Noah's (a) life.<ref>Ibn Kathīr, ''Qiṣaṣ al-anbīyāʾ'', p. 65.</ref>22 | ||
[[Ni'mat Allah al-Jaza'iri]] believes that according to the most of the authentic Shi'a reports, Noah (a) lived 2500 years. [['Allama Tabataba'i]] believed that according to the explicit text of the Qur'an about Noah's (a) invite for 950 years before [[Flood of Noah|the flood]], Noah (a) had a very long life; and, contrary to what some sources mentioned, it was neither a miracle, nor their years were different from the present years. He continues saying that it seems that Noah (a) lived a naturally long life, and no reason for the impossibility of having a long life is mentioned so far. | [[Ni'mat Allah al-Jaza'iri]] believes that according to the most of the authentic Shi'a reports, Noah (a) lived 2500 years.24<ref>Al-Jazāʾirī, ''Al-Nūr al-mubīn'', p. 113.</ref> [['Allama Tabataba'i]] believed that according to the explicit text of the Qur'an about Noah's (a) invite for 950 years before [[Flood of Noah|the flood]], Noah (a) had a very long life; and, contrary to what some sources mentioned, it was neither a miracle, nor their years were different from the present years. He continues saying that it seems that Noah (a) lived a naturally long life, and no reason for the impossibility of having a long life is mentioned so far.<ref>Ṭabāṭabāʾī, ''al-Mīzān'', vol. 10, p. 271.</ref> | ||
Long life, delay in prosperity for the believers, elimination of all the pagans and universality of Noah's (a) call are some of the similarities between him and [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]] which have been mentioned in some hadiths. Some scholars have referred to Noah's long life to argue that Imam al-Mahdi's (a) long life is in fact something natural. | Long life, delay in prosperity for the believers, elimination of all the pagans and universality of Noah's (a) call are some of the similarities between him and [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]] which have been mentioned in some hadiths.<ref>ʿAlāʾyīnizhād, ''Shibāhathā-yi Imām Zamān bā aʾimma ma'ṣūmīn wa ʾanbīyāʾ'', p. 62-64.</ref> Some scholars have referred to Noah's long life to argue that Imam al-Mahdi's (a) long life is in fact something natural.<ref>Qazwīnī, ''Imām Mahdī az wilādat tā zuhūr'', p. 134; Raḍawī, ''Imām Mahdī'', p. 33; Riḍwānī, ''Wujūd-i Imām Mahdī az manzar-i Qurān wa hadīth'', p. 79; Nazarī Munfarid, ''Imām Mahdī az tawallud tā rajʿat'', p. 224; Amīnī Gulistānī, ''Sīmā-yi jahān dar ʿasr-i Imām-i Zamān'', p. 218.</ref> | ||
== In the Qur'an == | == In the Qur'an == | ||