THE END OF AN ADVENTURE (VERSE NO. 44)

      Some Islamic traditions imply that the Ark wandered on that wavy ocean, for six months when finally the end of the punishment was announced. Then the sky ceased raining and the earth swallowed the water and the Ark sat upon JUDI.

      The above verse is one of the most beautiful and expressive passages in the Arabic language and literature. It has a wonderful moving force and fluency through which large scenery is explained in few words, that none of them can be replaced with a synonym without ruining the beauty and changing the whole meaning!

WHERE IS JUDI?

      There is not a widely accepted place, as Judi, upon which the Ark must have settled. Some of the commentators say that it is a mountain near Musel in the northern region of Iraq. Some others have taken it as a common name given to any place which is hard and high. A group of the commentators speak of BOHTAN in a district at the frontier of Modern Turkish and Iraq, in which JABAL JUDI= THE MOUNTAIN OF JUDI is situated, and Allah knows best where JUDI or the seat of the Ark had been.