Simple
translation:
“And narrate to the people this
parable of two men, upon one of whom We had bestowed two vineyards, and surrounded
them with date palms, and placed a field of grain in-between.”
(18:32)
Simple
translation:
“Each of the two gardens yielded its
produce and never failed therein in any way, since We had caused a stream to
gush forth in the midst of each of them.”
(18:33)
Simple
translation:
“And so he had produce in abundance.
And (one day) he
said to his companion, in boastful argument while bandying words with him,
“More wealth have I than you, and mightier am I as regards (the number and
power of my) followers!”
(18:34)
Commentary:
Here is a beautiful parable that
forcefully warns of one of major attacks of Dajjal on the faith of
mankind, i.e. the attack of the Duniyah (worldly life). The reader would
easily be able to recognize that this attack, which corrupts the heart to such
an extent that the Duniyah replaces Allah Most High as supreme in the
heart, has already met with resounding success in today’s world.
In consequence of being rich, the
owner of the two gardens was convinced that he was a ‘somebody’, and that his companion,
who was poor, was a ‘nobody’. The
corrupt rich (corrupted by wealth) eventually brainwash themselves into believing
that they have more rights than the poor. Hence they should control power in
society. They ‘make’ and ‘break’ governments. They buy elections with their
check-books. They lead all important groups and, in particular, religious
groups. They take control of the media, business, sports, politics, education
etc. They even control the administration and management of the churches,
temples, synagogues and Masajid. The consequence is that since they are
themselves corrupt, they corrupt all others.
Dajjal’s success is thus phenomenal.
Simple translation:
“And having (thus) corrupted himself
internally, he entered his garden, saying, “I do not think that this will ever
perish!”
(18:35)
Commentary:
This was an indication that the ‘rich’
man, who was corrupted by his wealth, had now lost touch with reality and was living
in a world of fantasy. His faith in
Allah had become a thing of no meaning and substance since he had essentially
lost all consciousness of His Lord as al-Akbar i.e., the Supreme Being
Who gives life as well as wealth, and Who can take it all away whenever He
wants to do so, Who makes and Who breaks and in Whose hands is all power. He
had become the equivalent of a misguided missile that can be used and exploited
by Dajjal to fulfill truly evil ends. The world today is filled with
such people.
Simple
translation:
“And neither do I think that the Last
Hour will ever come. But even if I am brought before my Lord-God, I will surely
find something even better than this as (my last) resort!”
(18:36)
Commentary:
And this was evidence that even though
he still recognized Allah as his Lord-God, he had effectively turned away from
Allah and was worshipping other than Allah Most High. The external formalistic
shell of religion without its vital internal substance of moral rectitude and
spiritual illumination could not protect him from the consequences of his
internal corruption. His wealth led him to worship himself and his wealth
rather than his Lord-God.
The basic sign that such corruption
has visited a people is their loss of any practical consciousness of a Last Day
and of a Day of Judgment. When these beliefs have faded from consciousness then
the consequence can be a greater corruption that can afflict the soul, namely,
“I am on the right path and hence I will be rewarded by my Lord. The reward in
the next life will surpass those of this life.” This represents the ultimate in
brainwashing.
Simple
translation:
“His companion answered him in the
course of their argument: “Will you blaspheme against Him who has created you
out of dust, and then out of a drop of sperm, and in the end has fashioned you
into a (complete) man?”
(18:37)
Commentary:
Surah al-Kahf now adopts a powerful
psychological strategy with which it seeks to persuade the godless to return to
the path of Allah. It focuses attention on the amazing process of creation of a
human being. One of the many miracles of the Qur’an is the detailed
information of embryology which it presented to the world 1400 years prior to
the discovery by modern science of that which has now confirmed the truth of
that information.
Simple
translation:
“But as for myself, He is Allah, my
Lord-God; and I should not worship other than my Lord-God.”
(18:38)
Explanatory
translation:
“But as for myself, (I recognize that) He is Allah, my
Lord-God; and (that) I should not worship other than my Lord-God (by
recognizing wealth, job, political party, the State etc., as supreme in my
life).”
Commentary:
Here is tangible evidence of faith.
The consciousness should ever reside in the heart that Allah Most High is ever
Kind and is always Just to His servants. And so, a servant of the Lord can be
miserably poor and can yet preserve his faith in Allah Most High since he has
the assurance that any economic injustice, for example, that is inflicted on
him has not come from Allah.
And so those who struggle in the way
of Islam in the modern world should know that the poor can preserve their faith
in the age of Dajjal, even when they are reduced to poverty in
consequence of Dajjal’s attack of Riba. They can remain faithful
to Allah once they are made to understand that Allah is never unjust to anyone,
and hence they cannot blame Him for their miserable prison of permanent
poverty.
Simple
translation:
“Alas, if only you had said, on
entering your garden, ‘Whatever Allah wills, for there is no power save with
Allah!’ Although, as you see, I have less wealth and offspring than you,”
(18:39)
Explanatory
translation:
And (he continued) “Alas, if only you had said, on
entering your garden, ‘Whatever Allah wills (shall come to pass since)
there is no power save with Allah!’ (Such would have been better for you).
Although, as you see, I have less wealth and offspring (and entourage)
than you (that does not make me a ‘nobody’),”
Commentary:
The poor man had the wisdom to discard
the false argument that poverty itself was something disgraceful and a crime, and
that it should be abolished. He rejected the argument that he who is poor is a
‘nobody’ and has to turn aside and make way for the rich to rule over him. He
gave, instead, a very valuable lesson to all of the rich that they should reject
the secularization of life by responding, whenever they are pleased with any
material possession, with Ma shah Allah, la quwwata illa billah, i.e., what
Allah wills has come to pass. There is no Power other than with Him. This
would be a tangible way of recognizing Allah Most High as the Supreme Being in
their lives and in the world.
Simple
translation:
“but it may well be that my Lord-God
will give me something better than your garden - just as He may let loose a
calamity out of heaven upon this (your
garden by way of reckoning), so that it becomes a heap of barren dust,”
(18:40)
Commentary:
Like the poor man in this story,
today’s poor should not lose consciousness of the fact that Allah is ever Just.
They should know that if they remain patient in adversity, and firmly resist
the wicked war on Islam that is being waged today by the Jewish-Christian
alliance that rules the world on behalf of the Euro-Jewish State of Israel,
they can expect one day to be rewarded for their faith, and they would have the
happiness of seeing their tormentors bite the dust. Indeed the Prophet (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam)
has prophesied that Allah Most High would Himself destroy the Gog and Magog
(Anglo-American-Israeli) world order which today oppresses all of mankind who
resist them. In this particular instance, i.e., in Surah al-Kahf,
the gardens were reduced to dust. But in the case of the present world order
destruction would be through disease that would afflict them all and for which
there would be no cure. The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa
sallam) said that
something would infect them at the back of their necks and hence the spinal
cord would be affected and they would be so paralyzed that they would not be
able to stand. They will then die like fleas:
Narrated
An-Nawwas ibn Sam’an: “ . . . . It
will be under such conditions that Allah will reveal to Jesus these words: I
have brought forth from among My servants such people against whom none will be
able to fight; you take these people safely to Tur, and then Allah will send
Gog and Magog and they will swarm down from every slope. The first of them will
pass the Lake of Tiberius (i.e., the Sea of Galilee) and drink out of it. And
when the last of them passes, he will say: There used to be water there. Jesus
and his companions will then be besieged here (at Tur, and they will be so hard
pressed) that the head of the ox will be dearer to them than one hundred
dinars. Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him), Jesus, and his companions will
supplicate Allah, Who will send to them insects (which will attack their necks)
and in the morning they would perish as one single person . . .
. .”
This writer is of the view that the
process of divine punishment and destruction, akin to that which visited the
gardens in Surah al-Kahf, has already commenced in today’s strange
world. The awesome punishment which has already visited so many who engage in
unnatural sex is but a sign of things to come.
Simple
translation:
“or the water of the garden will run
off underground so that you will never again be able to recover it."
(18:41)
Commentary:
Because of faith in Allah Most High
the poor can actually look forward to a divine intervention that can reverse
the fortunes of both the rich and poor. That divine intervention in the Last
Age takes the form of the release of Gog and Magog who so corrupt mankind in so
far as respect for water, and the rational consumption of water, is concerned that
the world would witness the ever-dwindling supply of fresh water. When mankind
consumes more water than nature can replenish then eventually water would
become so scarce, in the Holy Land in particular, that people would be forced
to submit to Dajjal in order to get water. What is true for water is
also true for oil.
But ultimately the scarcity of water
will affect all of mankind and eventually the poor would be able to show
greater powers of endurance during that scarcity while the empire and lifestyle
of the rich would grind to a very painful halt for lack of water.
Simple
translation:
“And (thus it happened that) his
fruitful gardens were encompassed by ruin, and there he was, wringing his hands
over all that he had spent on that which now lay waste while caved in to its
very foundation; and all that he could say in response was, "Woe is me!,
“Oh, would that I had not blasphemed against my Lord-God by worshipping other
than my Lord-God!”
(18:42)
Commentary:
Surah al-Kahf has here delivered a
tremendous warning in the form of a parable (i.e., a fable or allegorical representation
of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for
instruction). A believer must beware of ever making the same monstrous mistake
that the rich man in this story made, i.e., allowing material possessions or
any other worldly matter to replace Allah Most High as supreme in his heart.
The Surah warns that if that were ever to occur it would be Shirk
– the one sin that Allah would never forgive. The world today is filled with Shirk.
Those who rule the world are a people who constantly invite mankind to Shirk,
or seduce them into Shirk. But Allah Most High will one day destroy that
world of Shirk in the same way that the gardens were destroyed.
Simple
translation:
“- for now he had no one to help him
in Allah’s stead, nor could he (even)
help himself (in seeking deliverance from Allah’s punishment).”
(18:43)
Commentary:
When Allah Most High decides to punish
someone no one can help him to escape that punishment. Punishment is now unfolding
upon all of mankind (other than the true servants of Allah Most High) in this
Last Age. In this sense the world is now witnessing hell itself spread out
before the eyes of the disbelievers. They are living in hell and, just like the
rich man in the story who was punished by Allah Most High, they have no means,
and no one, to deliver them from that hell.
Simple
translation:
“For in such a matter (as well as in all other matters)
all protective friendship and help belongs to (i.e., comes from) Allah
alone, the True One. He is the best to grant recompense, and the best to
determine what is to be.”
(18:44)
Commentary:
At the conclusion of this very
instructive parable of the fate of the rich man who was corrupted by his wealth
and allowed the Dunyah to replace his Lord-God as the supreme object in
his heart, Surah al-Kahf warns us that we should take care not to follow
in his sinful footstep.
To Be Continued....
Surah Kahf Unveiling The End Time By Sheikh Imran Hosein
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