Surah Al Kahf - Ayah No 81

Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubarak. Let's take a leaf out of the amazing Al Kahf this week and improve our understanding of life. More importantly, the deceptions of life. Classical deceptions of life are fear of sustenance & death. Next in line is attractions of life like precious properties, material possessions and legacy in sons. These are mendacious adornments sweetly wrapped in deceiful life. So, think for a minute, life itself is Dajl (Deception). Whether Dajjal has already arrived or not, the stage is set. Al Quran has been sent down to free us from fear and grief. Al Kahf is special remedy of removing traps of life. How? Let's discuss today's Ayah No 81 and you would see removal of at least one snare lurking in path of your life.

Ayah No 81 is continuation of Ayan 80 wherein Khizar AS went on to explain why a youngman was killed during their journey (Ayah No 74). In previous Ayah Khizar AS gave the cause & effect of murder i.e. parents of the kid were pious and practicing whereas the boy was rebel and denier. Mercy and wisdom of Allah swt is such that by taking that boy out of their lives, he protected their Imaan and saved them the grief which was likely to be inflicted by their own offspring.

The Mercy & Justice of The Most Merciful and The Just doesn't stop there. Khizar AS in this Ayah (No 81) announced that the transgressor boy who died would be replaced for them with purer and soft-heated one.

Why Allah swt willed this way? We can never encompass His Wisdom and Mercy, however, we can make an attempt to understand what was the massage between the lines for us? Why Allah swt sent His Super Superman to interfere into the matters of earthlings? Because to Allah swt there is only one criteria for humans i.e. تقوی to be God fearing out of love. And Allah swt vouched for the piety and God fearing character of both the parents whose son was killed and He swt had much better plans for them. Since, they were God fearing, Allah swt knew they will submit to His will as well.

Browse through every story of Al Quran and Al Kahf whether it was 'The Man of Yaseen', The Kahf Boys, one man out of those Men of Two Gardens or people in ship broken by Khizar AS, there is a common thread, they were all God Fearing (متقی)۔

Next week Insha Allah with explanation of third and last incident of Khizar & Musa AS' story.