Surah Al Kahf- Ayah No 30

Assalam o Alaikum 

Juma Mubarak. Let's connect with Al Kahf, The Cave of Hope like today's Ayah.

By discussing Ayah No 30 today (penultimate Ayah of Rukuh), we are heading towards the end of 4th Rukuh of Al Kahf. Before we discuss this Ayah of hope, let's first quickly refresh wisdom behind Quran's breakdown into Ayahs, Rukuhs, Paras, Surahs and Manazil. 

We begin with Ayah which means "evidence," "sign" or "miracle,". Total No of Ayahs in Quran is 6666. Every Ayah is a sign post, complete in its meaning and message if we keep interpretations in the context of ongoing Rukuh. The term Rukuh roughly translated to "passage", "pericope" or "stanza". No of Rukuhs in Quran is 558. It's a group of thematically related Ayahs Qur'an. Rukuh is clubbing together Ayahs wherein topics change so that we can easily decide that after how many Ayahs we should perform Rukuh in prayers  Rukuh is complete speech by Allah swt with a start, a message (the meat) and an ending. Rukuh is breakdown of Surahs. Surah is like a chapter of a book. It literally means a fortress containing secure walls around a subject. These are 114 with two distinct groups of Meccan 76 and Madni 28. For those who desire to complete their recitation of Quran within a certain time frame, they are most pleased to find the Quran separated into thirty (30) even parts called "juz-un" in Arabic or Para in Persian (Farsi). If someone reads a "juz'un" each day, in 30 days they will have completed the entire Quran in one month. Likewise, for the convenience of those who read Al Quran in a week, the text may be divided into seven equal portions, each known as Manzil.

Coming over to today's Ayah of hope. Since, the Rukuh is ending in next Ayah, Allah swt has to leave us with hope. Hope is fuel of life. In absence of hope, life becomes synonymous to futility. Allah swt, The King of earth and Heavens, is assuring that those who believe and do good deeds, their good deeds will not be lost. Same thing is repeated in Ar Rehman in the form of a logical little query,' هل جزاء الإحسان إلا الإحسان', 'Is there any Reward for Good - other than Good? 55:60. How logical and beautiful !!!

May Allah give us Imaan and have us do good deeds. Ameen