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18: al kahf - the cave

110 VERSES MAKKAN REVELATION

The name comes from the story of the youths who took refuge from persecution in a cave. They were preserved there as though they were asleep. The two horned one Dhul Qarneyn, Musa PBUH and the angel were revealed to the prophet PBUH in answer to the questions the Jewish doctors of Yathrib had instructed the idolaters to ask as a test of the Prophet hood. This was the time when the opposition of Meccans turned from verbal accusations and abuse to physical and socio-economic torture and bans. This is the time when many Muslims migrated to nearby country of Abasinya.

The questions were of the youths of old their fate and a much travelled man who reached the sunrise and sunset regions of the Earth his history and the spirit what it is. The tormentors of the Prophet PBUH returned from Yathrib to Makkah to put these questions.

The Prophet PBUH said he would answer them tomorrow but didn’t say In Sha Allah If God Wills and as a reproof of this omission the revelation did not come to him for some days and when it did came with the rebuke

11: The youths hearing was sealed in the cave for a number of years

15: The youths said that their people were choosing other Gods without a clear warrant vouchsafed to them

17: The Sun rose away from their cave to the right and when it set go past them on the left, the youths were in the cleft.

18: The youths turned right and left as though sleeping

19: When they awakened they asked one another how long they had tarried in the cave, they thought it was a day or part of a day. One of them took a coin into the City

21: They were disclosed to the people of the City they might know that the promise of Allah SWT is the true and there is no doubt concerning the hour

22: Only Allah SWT knows their number (those in the cave)

25: It is said they tarried in their cave 300 years add 9

26: Allah SWT is best aware how long they tarried

31: Those who believe will be in Gardens of Eden where rivers flow beneath them. They will be given armlets of gold and will wear green robes of finest silk and gold embroidery reclining upon thrones therein

32: The example of the two men is given of which one had two gardens that was arrogant.

45: The similitude of the life of the world is as water which is sent down from the sky and the vegetation of the Earth mingles with it and become dry twigs that the winds scatter. Allah SWT is able to do all things

46: Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of the world. Good deeds are better

48: On the day of Judgement everyone is set in ranks before Allah SWT

49: The book will be placed everything is counted

50: the angels were told to prostrate to Adam pbuh. All except Iblis prostrated. Iblis although being among the angels was of the Jinn. (Jinn like men can choose their way of conduct)

56: The Messengers are bearers of good news and warner’s

58: Everyone has an appointed term

59: The townships that did wrong had a fixed time for their destruction

60-82: The story of prophet Musa pbuh looking for where the two rivers meet where he would find Al Khidr in order to learn from him some of that which Allah SWT had taught him. When the fish took its way into the waters and Prophet Musa pbuh retraced his footsteps to where the fish had taken into the water. There Musa pbuh found Al Khidr. Musa pbuh asked if he could follow Al Khidr to the end and was told to not ask any questions. Musa pbuh asked about the ship, the boy and the wall. Musa pbuh was then given the interpretation. A king was forcefully taking ships. The boy was rebellious. The wall belonged to two orphan boys whose father was righteous

83: Dhul Qarneyn is mentioned

84-98: He was made strong in the land and given a road and he followed a road. He came across people who had no sun who is this setting and some who had no sun rising. He came across the two mountains. Gog and Magog mentioned here and the iron and copper to fill the gap between the mountains.

98: This is a mercy from Allah SWT but when the promise comes to pass he will lay it low, the promise of thy Lord is true

99: Some will surge against others on this day and the trumpet will be blown. Then they will be gathered.

100: hell will be presented to the disbelievers this day plain to view

109: Though the sea became ink for the words of Allah SWT the sea would be used up before the words of Allah SWT were exahusted

110: I am only a mortal like you. There is only one God.