Surah Al Kahf - Ayah No 16

Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubrak. Al Kahf Time. Please find time to recite or understand complete or part of Al Kahf on this blessed day.

In last Ayah No 15, The Kahf Boys questioned their peoples' faith system and asked for some authentication of their beliefs. On listening to their counter arguments, Roman King at the time, Decius haughtily gave time to The Boys to recant their faith. He was mistaken. The belief of Kahf Boys was true and tenable. 

However, it was obvious that they could not live among their people anymore. They were very smart, like people of faith should be. First proof of their intellectual ascendancy was that they adopted the only true belief system i.e. Oneness of Allah. Second, most impressive indicator of their conscientiousness was their plan to deal with the situation wherein they were already up against the wall. They submitted their matter to Allah by inciting His mercy and with the firm belief that their Lord would facilitate in all their affairs.

What happened next shall unfold in later part of the Surah but what had happened thus far deserved some reflection. What made Kahf Boys so intelligent? How could they come up with such ingenious plan? Of course, their unwavering faith in Allah. So the million dollar question - was it their intelligence or faith? None. Their sincerity. 

Lesson for us to take home is to be sincere in our thought and act. Our inbuilt dormant consciousness can exactly differentiate right from wrong, sincerity from insincerity, good from evil, truth form lie and virtue from vice. And we are so lucky, if there were iota of ambiguity, Al Furqan was gifted to us a millennium and half ago which vividly distinguished right from wrong. We might have to let loose our consciousness from inactive to active role in our thought process and decision making. By decision making I mean choices. Faith is one of those choices. Rest is easy, believe and submit. Stop worrying about taking the wheel anymore, just sit back and enjoy the ride of life in cruise control mode.

May Allah help us achieve Kahf Boys' sincerity and faith. Ameen