Surah Al Kahf - Ayah No 14

Assalm o Alaikum

Juma Mubarak

Nothing is in our control. Even our own control is not in our control. This may conflict with our concept of freewill. Let's examine this. Our capacity is limited. So if we submit, the control is completely passed on to the Safest Hands(As we understand from Quran that Allah swt has hands with which he took time to make Adam AS) in the Universe. As specie, none of us has the capacity to stand any pressure (social, professional and financial), trouble (invited advertently or inadvertently), illness (physical, psychological and spiritual). But if we insist on keeping the control in our hands, we falter eventually to exhaust and perish ingloriously. And this tug of control is ongoing. As much space we give to Allah swt, space of our open enemy shrinks and vice versa. As we know, Allah swt lives in our hearts where he puffed the most beautiful thing i.e from his Rooh. Likewise, the enemy has the permission to run in our blood. It is a serious situation. We tend to take is very light. Resultantly, our enemy, plays tricks on us. His eavesdrops work like magic (the wrong type of magic). And straight talk of Allah swt makes us uncomfortable. We tent to avoid it. We avoid paying heed to it. Like a cunning salesman, Iblees sells his merchandise to us on cheap price and we get sucked into his fancy false promises. But Allah swt can't adopt the tactics of sales cadre, He swt is the King of Heavens and Earth. He swt is straight talker. He swt differentiates right from wrong for us. Gives us the choice to submit (what we think is freewill). And being the King that He swt is, also gives us freedom to try our luck, knowledge and tricks. But this course of action is surely leading to doom.

Above pretext in mind, Allah swt, while continuing story of our heroes, The Kahf Boys, tells us what distinguishes them from others i.e their sincere submission.

   

 What our heroes did, they solved the riddle of life. They must be the most intelligent of the lot who identified their Lord amid reign of polytheism. They stood witness to Oneness of The Only One. Also emphasizing that anything other than that would be excessive transgression. It boils down to the same point, if we submit, if we give control to the King of Heavens and Earth, He swt will definitely make good of us. Look at Kahf Boys, we may not know their exact names (which may be known to many, as their details including name of their dog is given below in a poster), but we still celebrate their act of sincerity today as I write these lines and you read them. 

May Allah swt give us the gift of submission like the way He swt bestowed it upon Al Kahf Boys. Ameen 

Names around circle are of our Heroes. In center, Qitmeer is Dog.