Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubarak. Let's maximise benefits of this blessed day by reciting and understanding part or whole of Al Kahf. This magnificent Surah is loaded with metaphysical content. We are attuned to Hollywood induced Sci-fi concepts but are reluctant to assimilate with Quranic extraterrestrials and time travels. For example, Kahf Boys slept for exactly 300 years in The Cave and could this be any truer than this because Allah swt told this story. So how they lived for those 300 years? Normally, sleep is soul's leasure time to breakaway from the body and wander about. Would it not be fair to assume that their souls detached from them for three centuries. Did their souls go on time travel? Seems so, because when they woke up, they weren't certain they slept for a few hours or a day or so. Either way, in physical domain how their bodies were nourished? So lots of metaphysical stuff in there. We shall build upon it as we make progress in this story.
Today's Ayah No 14 is about how Allah swt gave strength to their hearts. I guess we need to drop this chicken and egg argumentation on which comes first freewill ir Allah’s will to help freewill choose correctly. It was and will always be a matter of choice. Kahf Boys chose to stand by Tauheed, hence Allah gave their hearts strength to stand up to the tyrannical ruler and bigoted social order. And see how unequivocally they declared Allah's Oneness and His indisputable dominion over Heavens and earth notwithstanding the fact that they could be persecuted, deprived of their status and material possessions. None of it bothered them. They rose above mundane dependencies and have been immortalised by Allah swt for their sincerity of intent and purity of action.
In testing tines that we live in, we need a lot of that moral courage which our Heroes, The Kahf Boys possessed. May Allah give us strength to stand up for right cause whenever and wherever. Ameen.
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