Answers of Quiz 2004 (Hazrat Hood AS)

1. Abar
2. Eber
3. (B) Aad
4. (D) 4th
5. 13
6. (A) Yemen
7. (D) Both A and B
8. Samd, Samud and Hara
9. (B) Hazrat Hood AS
10. (A) A violent storm
11. (C) Shaddad
12. Al-Fajr
13. Aad, the son of Shem, the son of Hazrat Noah (AS)
14. Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) in a conversation with Hazrat Izrael (AS) asked him "Have you ever felt Mercy while taking a soul for God?", to which the Angel of Death replied "Yes, only Once". Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) was intrigued and so Hazrat Izrael (AS) told him the story... Long ago a pregnant mother was giving birth to a child on a boat, I was ordered by God to take her Life while she was giving birth... I did as I was commanded and ask the ship began to sank, I said "and what of the Boy, O Lord?". I was commanded to let the Boy live by allowing him to float on a plank from the wreckage. I did as I was commanded by God but I could not help but feel sorrow for the poor Boy who had no hope of survival and no future. I wondered to myself 'Why does God allow him to live?'. That Boy was found floating on that wooden plank and rescued, the world would know him as "Shaddad".
15. (A) Iram
16. When Shaddad's heaven was complete he prepared to enter it, but as he approached it - the sun was neither rising nor setting, it was in between, and he was not inside the Garden nor outside - he was in between and as he took one foot off the horse saddle to put on the ground. The Angel of Death was commanded to take Shadad's Soul.
17. (A) Rajab
18. 11th
19. The Quran gives the location of Aad as being Al-Ahqaf (The Sandy Plains, or the Wind-curved Sand-hills) in Arabian peninsula.

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