Surah Al Kahf- Ayah No 36

Assalam o Alaikum 

Shab-e-Juma Mubarak. May this be your best Juma. A soft reminder to recite/understand whole/part of magnificent Al Kahf to add to the bounties of this blessed day.

Today's Ayah No 36 (continuation of previous Ayah) is about how belief in means weakens belief in Allah and Akhira. See how closely belief strings of unseen are knitted. We have not seen The Creator, neither life of after death. The reason we can't see Him is coarse nature of our vision. He swt is way too sophisticated and not made up of the matter our eyes are used to seeing. Believing in unseen through seen is difficult. For example Prophets (due to purity of their souls) had strong connect with the unseen. However, like the rest of us, they were flesh and bone which made it difficult for others to believe in their message from the unseen. It was always hard for contemporaries to accept their ascendancy in spiritual domain. Imagine, a kid next door comes of age, walks up to you and claims Prophethood. Sticky situation!!! You might vouch for his integrity but it would be hard to accept his claim. Exactly, the same dilemma was faced by Abu Lahab and Abu Jahal. They saw the truth but their false egoes mislead them. Just like this story, 'The Men of Two Gardens', where wealthier man was blinded by abundance of means. He forgot The Creator of means. The moment belief in Allah weaken, next casualty is belief in Akhirah (The Day of Reckoning). A step further would be getting overwhelmed by our false sense of well being. That even if there is a day of recompense (posing this question itself is a sign of dwindling faith), we shall be rewarded better than what we've go in here. A fallacy of proportions and an insult of human intellect. How could you attempt the paper well when you haven't even understood the questions? How could you pass the test with flying colors when you missed the compulsory question and wrongly attempted the remaining answers?

May Allah help us understand the importance of compulsory question (Tauheed) and doesn't let us lose sight of Akhirah. Ameen