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The People Of The Cave (Episode 3)
By: Captshittu Date: August 27, 2017, 10:07 am
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[size=18pt][font=times new roman][font=arial][font=georgia]THE
PEOPLE OF THE CAVE[/font][/font][/font][/size]
_Episode 3_
The fact that the Jews knew about them nullifies the claim of
some interpreters that they were after Jesus (Peace be upon him)
and that they were Christians. However, it is clear that their
people were idol-worshippers. Many interpreters and historians
said that they lived during the lifetime of a king called
"Diqyanus" and that they were sons of some nobles or kings. They
met on a feast day and saw the rituals their people were
performing in Norship of the idols. At this very moment, Allah
removed the veils from their hearts and they realized hat their
people were wrong-doers. Consequently, hey deserted the religion
of their people and resorted to the worship of Allah Alone. It
is also laid: that each one of them when guided by Allah to he
True Religion, abandoned his people and they coincidentally
gathered in one place. Imam Muslim transmitted in his Sahih the
following Prophetic Hadith which supports that meaning: "Abu
Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's
Messenger (Peace be upon him) as saying: Souls are troops
collected together and those who familiarized with each other
(in the heaven from where these come) would have affinity, with
one another (in the world) and those amongst them who opposed
each other (in the Heaven) would also be divergent (in the
world)." That, they asked one another about their affair and
hence, they agreed on deserting and abandoning their people and
fleeing with their true religion. Allah the Almighty says: {We
narrate unto you (0 Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) their story
with truth: Truly they were young men who believed in their Lord
(Allah), and We increased them in guidance. And We made their
hearts firm and strong (with the light of Faith in Allah and
bestowed upon them patience to bear the separation )f their kith
and kin and dwellings.) when they stood up and said: "Our Lord
is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, never shall we call
upon any Ilah (god) other than Him; if we did, we should indeed
have uttered an enormity in disbelief. "These our people have
taken for worship alihah (gods) other than Him (Allah). Why do
they not bring for them a clear authority? And who does more
wrong than he who invents a lie against Allah}. (Al-Kahf, 13-15)
"Clear authority" here means obvious evidence or proof. {And who
does more wrong than he who invents a lie against Allah. (The
young men said to one another): "And when you withdraw from
them, and that which they worship, except Allah,} (Al-Kahf, 15,
16) i.e. when you deserted them and their idols that they used
to worship others instead of Allah the Almighty. Our Prophet
Ibrahim (Peace be upon him) said: {And (remember) when Ibrahim
(Abraham) said to his father and his people: "Verily, I am
innocent of what you worship, except Him (i.e. Allah Alone I
worship none) Who did create me; and verily He will guide me "}.
(Az-Zukhruf, 26, 27) Thus, some of these young men said: as you
did desert your people's religion, you should also desert them
in body and figure so as to be safe from the possibility that
their evil may touches you, {then seek refuge in the Cave,. your
Lord will open a way for you from His Mercy and will make easy
for you your affair (i.e. will give you what you will need of
provision, dwelling)}, (Al-Kahf, 16) i.e. Allah will draw on you
His cover, protect you and reward you with the best of all
rewards. Then, Allah described the cave to which they resorted
stating that its door is to the north saying: {And you might
have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from
their Cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the
left}, i.e. the sun rises on the western side of their cave,
then it declines to the right side thereof. And, when it sets
its rays come towards the cave from its eastern side. Here, the
wisdom is that the sun enters their cave on its rising and
setting in order to refresh the air from time to time. {While
they lay in the midst of the Cave. That is (one) of the Ayat
(proofs, evidences, signs) of Allah}, i.e. their stay on this
state for a very long period of time without eating and drinking
is one of the Signs of Allah and a proof of His Magnificent
Ability. {He whom Allah guides, he is the rightly guided,. but
he whom He sends astray, for him you will find no Wali (guiding
friend) to lead him (to the Right Path). And you would have
thought them awake, whereas they were asleep}, for their eyes
were open in order to be kept sound. {And We turned them on
their right and on their left sides}, it was said: they used to
be turned from one side to the other once every year. However,
the number of the turnings is known only to Allah the Almighty
Who knows best!
Click On Episode 4
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