Many hundred of years passed after Adam, and the earth was filled with his children. As the time passed, the children of Adam forgot Allah and started to worship statues made of stone. They became bad and would lie and steal and some became mean and greedy.
Allah sent Nuh to those people to bring them back to His worship. Nuh invited the people to come back to Tawhid. He asked them to give up idol worship and all the other bad habits. He warned them about the Day of Judgment.
Nuh tried his best for many years to make people come back to the worship of Allah, but the people would not listen. They laughed at him, made fun of him, and called him crazy and a liar.

Nuh lived for 950 years and during this period of time, only a few people accepted Islam. Even his son and wife did not believe in him. Nuh was tired and fed up with the people. He prayed to Allah to save him and his followers.
Allah accepted Nuh’s prayers and asked him to build an ark (boat). Nuh did as he was instructed by Allah. When the people saw Nuh building the ark, they laughed at him and thought that he must have gone crazy. They could not see the reason for building a big ark, hundred of miles away from the sea.
Nuh told the unbelievers that a flood would come soon and they would have no place to take shelter. The people laughed even more. After many days of hard work, the ark was complete and Allah asked Nuh to take a pair (one male, one female ) of all the animals in to the ark. He and his followers got on the ark.
Suddenly the skies became dark and thunder and rain followed. It rained and rained and the whole land was flooded. There was water everywhere. Every living thing was drowned except those were in the arc.
The flood water lasted five months and it destroyed all the unbelievers. Even Nuh's own son, an unbeliever, was not saved. Nuh asked permission from Allah to take his son in to the arc, but this was refused. He was told that an unbelieving son was no part of his family. Nuh felt sorry and Allah forgave him.
At last, the skies began to clear and the arc landed. Nuh and his followers got out. Thus Allah saved Nuh and his followers.