Logical answers to the following two questions:

Logical answers to the following two questions:
1. The Prophet Noah’s flood was a local or global disaster?
The Quran looks at the flood from a very different viewpoint than do the Pentateuch (a name for
the first five books of the Old Testament) and the other flood legends narrated in various cultures.
The Pentateuch, says that the flood was cosmic and that it covered the whole world. Yet
the Quran does not offer such as assertion, indeed on the contrary, the relevant verses imply that the
flood was regional and did not cover the whole world but only drowned Noah’s people who had been
warned by Prophet Noah and so were punished.
It is not God’s way to destroy people whom He has not sent any messengers. As a Warner, Noah had
been sent only to his people. Therefore, God did not destroy the communities who had not been sent
a Warner, but only Noah’s people.
“Nor was thy Lord the one to destroy a population until He had sent to its centre a messenger,
rehearsing to them Our Signs; nor are We going to destroy a population except when its members
practice iniquity.” (28:59)
2. What was the location of Noah’s flood?
The Mesopotamian Plains have been suggested as the location of the flood. In this region were the oldest
civilizations known to history. Besides, being between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, this region
geographically is a suitable setting for a great deluge. One of the contributory factors to the effect of
the flood is most probably that these two rivers overflowed their beds and overwhelmed the region.
Many excavations have been made in investigation of the flood which covered the Mesopotamian
plains. In excavations made in the region, in four main cities (Ur, Erech, Kish and Shuruppak) there
are found traces of what must have been a particularly large flood.