Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubarak. We never needed protection against evil as much as now. As far the timing of Al Kahf’s recitation is concerned, it preferably starts from sunset on Thursday to sunset on Friday. However, we may recite it on any day of the week. Today's Ayah is continuation of previous Ayah (No 4), wherein, Allah swt expressed His disapproval of some Christians who mistakenly took His beloved Prophet Isa Ibn Maryam AS as His son. Gravity of this conceptual error is further elaborated in today’s Ayah No 5. Difference between The Creator and the creation is immeasurable. It’s like comparing a photon with the sunlight or a droplet with an ocean or a sand particle with the desert. Besides no comparison; the sun, the ocean and the desert are finite entities with fixed shelf life.
There are two important lessons for us to take home from this Ayah. Human understanding of issues changes from generation to generation and at times gets distorted. Like anthropologists claim that early humans were monotheists (believed in One God) but over time they started looking for answers of their prayers in sun, trees, stones and fire. In short, whatever is taught to us as part of religious ideology, we must question its efficacy. And we are so lucky that our God is the only God who calls for reflection and inquisitiveness. Lucky are those who question religious malpractices albeit being labelled heretic.
Religion is perfect. God is perfect but we who practice it are imperfect rather ignorant of its real spirit. Secondly, the word Kibr is used by ALLAH swt in this Ayah for those who followed their forefathers' religious practices without applying their own mind. Also note that Kibr is derived from Takabbar i.e. Arrogance. And arrogance is direct outcome of ignorance. The same mistake committed by Iblees at the time of human creation.
To sum up, two lessons from this Ayah: we must question the form in which the religion is being passed on to us and do all we can to avoid Kibr (arrogance).
May Allah help us understand Islam. Ameen
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