Surah Al-Kahf (The Cave) PART1 18th Surah in the Quran found starting in the 15th Juzz and ending in the 16th Juzz 1) The Young men and the Kahf (Cave) The 4 2) The Two men and the Garden stories in Surah 3) The story of Musa (AS) and Khidr Al-Kahf 4) The story of Dhul Qarnain Story 1: The young men and the Kahf Bismillah…

• THE PEOPLE HAD FORGOTTEN TO WORSHIP ALLAH SWT AND HAD STARTING WORSHIPPING STATUTES INSTEAD • BUT, THERE WERE SOME YOUNG MEN WHO STILL HAD EMAAN (BELIEF IN ALLAH) IN THEIR HEARTS. • THESE MEN WERE NOT HAPPY! • ONLY ALLAH IS AL-KHALIQ! (THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH) • ONE BY ONE THEY LEFT THE KUFFAAR AND WENT AND SAT UNDER A TREE THE KING HEARD ABOUT THEM AND QUESTIONED THEM ABOUT THEIR FAITH.

THEY ASKED THE KING AND THE PEOPLE TO NEXT BELIEVE IN THE ONENESS OF ALLAH.

… THE KING WAS ENRAGED!

WHILST THEY WERE IN PUNISHMENT, ALLAH SWT HELPED THE YOUNG MEN TO ESCAPE!! • THEY FOUND A CAVE AND THEY HID INSIDE! DUA:

THEY MADE DUA TO ALLAH: “OUR LORD, GRANT US FROM YOURSELF MERCY AND PREPARE FOR US FROM OUR AFFAIR RIGHT GUIDANCE.” DUA: THROUGH HIS MERCY ALLAH CAUSED THE YOUNG MEN AND THEIR DOGS TO FALL ASLEEP FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS!

NAP ALLAH MADE THEM TURN TO THE RIGHT AND TO THE LEFT IN THEIR SLEEP. TIME!

IF YOU HAD GONE INTO THE CAVE YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THEY WERE AWAKE! TIME TO WAKE UP:

• FINALLY ONE DAY THEY WOKE UP AND WERE CONFUSED ABOUT HOW LONG THEY HAD SLEPT! • AYAH 19 IN SURAH KAHF “ WE HAVE BEEN ASLEEP FOR A DAY OR MAYBE HALF A DAY…” SO THEY SENT ONE OF THE MEN TO THE MARKET TO CHECK THE SITUATION BUT HE HAD TO VERY CAREFUL INCASE THE KING OR HIS MEN FOUND THEM AGAIN AND MADE THEM CHANGE THEIR RELIGION! WHAT DO YOU THUNK HAPPENED AT THE MARKET? THE MARKET:

• THE MAN GOT TO THE MARKET BUT COULDN’T RECOGNISE IT BECAUSE IT HAD CHANGED SO MUCH! • HIS MONEY WAS STRANGE! • THE SHOP KEEPER TOOK THE MAN TO HIS KING! THE YOUNG MAN TOLD THE KING ALL ABOUT HIS COMPANIONS

THE HE TOOK THE KING AND THE TOWNS PEOPLE TO MEET THE PEOPLE IN THE CAVE! KING:

IN THIS WAY ALLAH SWT MADE THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN AWARE OF ALLAH AND HIS PROMISE AND THAT THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT WILL COME. SO WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM THIS STORY? • NO MATTER WHAT, WE MUST WORSHIP ONLY ALLAH AL KHALIQ! • ALLAH WILL ALWAYS PROTECT HIS PEOPLE. • ALLAH’S HELP WILL COME. SO DON’T EVER FEEL SAD! LESSONS • WE MUST PUT OUR TRUST IN ALLAH. FOR US: • THE POWER OF DUA. • IN LIFE WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE TWO CHOICES, 1) THE EASY WAY WHICH MIGHT LEAD US TO HELL OR 2) ALLAH’S WAY EVEN IF IT SEEMS DIFFICULT. THE ONE WHO RECITES SURAH KAHF WILL HAVE PEACE (SAKINAH) AND TRANQUILITY SURROUND THEM.

DID YOU THE ONE WHO MEMORISES THE FIRST AND/OR LAST 10 AYAHS OF THE SURAH WILL BE PROTECTED FROM DAJJAL. KNOW?

THE ONE WHO RECITES THIS SURAH ON A FRIDAY WILL HAVE A LIGHT SHINING FROM THEM FROMTHAT FRIDAY TO THE NEXT FRIDAY! READ THE FIRST 10 AYAHS OF SURAH AL-KAHF CHALLENGE! WELL DONE!