2.7 The Allegation Of The Rich People

Noah continued calling his people to believe in ALLAH openly and in secret. He approached in group and individually, day and night, promising success in this life and the hereafter if they believe in Allah alone and warning them about Allah's severe punishment if they did not. But whenever he called them to ALLAH, they ran away from him and whenever he urged them to ask ALLAH to forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears and became too proud to listen to the truth .

The rich people said to the people that what Noah is calling them to is not true and it doesn't contain any good. Otherwise, it should be them, the rich people, who will attend to it before anyone does. They said to the poor people who had believed in Noah that if there had been any good in this religion, it would have come to them before these poor as mentioned in the Holy Quran "If it had been any good, they would not be before us in attaining it". (Ch 46: 11).

The rich people are considering things from their human corrupted and unjust perspectives. They consider themselves as the privileged ones in the society who are entitled for every single good coming to the society before anyone else, especially before the poor people. They forgot that they are dealing a message from Allah the Lord of all the creatures for Whom all the people and that the only criteria for being privileged unto Him is belief in Him and piety.