Sunday, September 4, 2016

Where did Noah’s Ark land? Ararat or Judi?

Where did Noah’s Ark land? Ararat or Judi?

11:44 And it was said, "O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold." And the water subsided, and the Command was fulfilled. And it rested on the Judi. And it was said, "Away with the wrongdoing people."

(According to the Qur’an, the Ark rested on the Judi (11:44); and according to the Bible, in Genesis 8:4, “the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat”)(But, in regard to the mountains, nowadays called “Mount Ararat”: The article “Mount Ararat” in wikipedia confirms that “the mountain is known as Ararat in European languages, however, none of the native peoples have traditionally referred to the mountain by that name”; the JewishEncyclopedia(dot)com confirms that “the mountain itself is known as Ararat only among Occidental geographers. The Armenians call it Massis, the Turks Aghri Dagh, and the Persians “Koh I Nuh” (the mountain of Noah”); so, Genesis does not use the original name, but a foreign one; and it is not the exact place)(Note: the locals call it “Agri Dagi” (“Mountain of pain or sorrow”) in Turkish, and “ciyaye Agiri” (“fiery mountain”) in Kurdish; and the Armenians called it “Massis” (after King Amasya), so Mount Ararat is not related to Noah’s Ark, despite Persians wrongly call it “the mountain of Noah”, because the Ark has not been found there, but it was found in “Mount Tendurek”)(The ark was not found in Mount Ararat, but according to the article “durupinar site” in wikipedia, Noah’s Ark is “on Mount Tendurek” (“29 km south of the greater Mount Ararat summit”); in regard to Mount Tendurek, the article also says that locals call one of the nearby peaks “Cudi Dagi” (Mount Cudi) in Turkish, or “Ciyaye Cudi” (Mount Cudi) in Kurdish, which is “linked to Mount Judi”, so the article confirms that Noah’s Ark is not in Mount Ararat, but in another Mount (“Mount Tendurek”)(Note: some of the information quoted here was removed from the article in wikipedia, but it is known and can be checked in other sites that the Durupinar site is in the Mount Tendurek of eastern Turkey, etc.). The peak “Cudi” in Turkish is “Judi” in Arabic. The two words are similar and refer to the same place; that is confirmed by the article “Origin of the Kurds” in wikipedia: in regard to the origin of name “Kurd”: “according to one theory, it originates in Middle Persian as “kwrt-, a term for “nomad; tent-dweller”. After the Muslim conquest of Persia, this term is adopted into Arabic as kurd-, and was used specifically of nomadic tribes. As for the Middle Persian noun kwrt- originating in an ancient toponym, it has been argued that it may ultimately reflect a Bronze Age toponym Qardu, Kar-da, which may also be reflected in the Arabic toponym Judi / Gudi (re-adopted in Kurdish as Cudi)”. The conclusion is that the word “Judi” in the Qur’an is correct and is the place where Noah’s Ark was found)(The Ark was found there because there is a visual evidence that the Ark (Mount Tendurek) is at the east of a village in Turkey called “Uzengili”, in the district “Dogubayazit”, “Agri” province, in Turkey (Do not confuse with “Uzengili” in the district of Bayburt, Bayburt Province, Turkey). If you search “uzengili” in Google maps, you can see a place at its right called “Nuhun Gemisi” (aka “the Ark of Noah”). There is the Ark’s print, but some people did some digging in the area but found nothing conclusive and (falsely) announced that it appeared to be a natural formation, but actually that claim implicitly proves that the place remained untouched (since the ark was there) so that the Ark really rested there, because they didn’t find any trace of human action in the ground, so the “visual evidence” that the Ark rested there was not falsified by people. The event of the flood happened many years ago (according to some sources, it happened 6,000 years ago), so no trace of human action should be found, in order to prove that the Ark rested there. And the evidence that the ark rested there is that the shape of the Ark’s print looked like the hull of a ship. Another proof is that the distance from bow to stern is 515 feet, or exactly 300 Egyptian cubits, and the average width is 50 cubits. These are the exact measurements mentioned in the Bible. According to Genesis 6:15, “the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high”)(Another point is that, even if “Judi” was not the original name of that place, Verse 14:4 says, “We did not sent any Messenger except in the language of his people”, so, the Qur’an uses the language of the Arabs, so “Judi” is the Arabic name. And even if the word “Judi” was not used by the Arabs, an interpretation is that the Qur’an might have restored the original name)(Note: the root of “Judi” is “Jiim-Waw-Dal”, and it means “to be good or goodly, approvable or excellent, to be egregious, to be liberal / bountiful / munificent / generous, affected or overcome with longing desire, to be feetful / swift”. So “Judi” does not mean “heights”, as some people suggest. I checked many dictionaries and none of them say that it means “heights” or similar)(Allah knows best)

54:9 The people of Noah denied before them, and they denied Our slave and said, "A madman," and he was repelled. ... 54:15 And certainly We left it (as) a Sign, so is (there) any who will receive admonition?

See also: Did Noah’s Ark hold every species? Was the flood in the time of Noah global or local?

http://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2017/01/noahs-ark-holds-every-species.html

See also: Did Noah’s seed survive? What about Noah’s son?

http://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2017/02/did-noahs-seed-survive-what-about-noahs.html

See also: Is the Qur'an scientifically correct? (7) (So-called myths and legendary tales)

https://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2016/09/response-to-ismaaeel-abu-adam.html

See also: Is the Qur'an scientifically correct? (0) (Index)

https://aqtthq.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/is-quran-scientifically-correct-2.html

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