Oceans SŪRAH AL-KAHF 18:107-110 TRANSLATION & COMMENTARY

Simple translation:

“Verily, as for those who attain to faith and whose conduct is righteous, the gardens of paradise will be there to welcome them;”                

(18:107)

Explanatory translation:

“(But) verily, as for those who attain to faith (i.e., belief in Allah Most High has entered into their hearts and so they truly fear Him and truly love him and, as a consequence, they part from those whom He hates, and love those whom He loves) and whose conduct is righteous – (let them have the assurance that) the gardens of paradise will be there to welcome them;”

Simple translation:

“There-in will they abide forever, (and) never will they desire any change there-from.”                                                        

(18:108)

Simple translation:

Say: “if the ocean were to become ink, and even if you were to add ocean upon ocean to the first one they would all be exhausted ere the words of my Lord-God can ever be exhausted.”                                               

(18:109)

Explanatory translation:

Say: (This is the word of Allah Most High, and the words of my Lord-God are such that) “if the ocean (of water) were to become ink, and even if you were to add ocean upon ocean to the first one (know that) they would all be exhausted ere the words of my Lord-God can ever be exhausted.” (Hence you make a terrible mistake in rejecting this Qur’an and this Prophet and in making fun of them, or in neglecting this guidance).

Simple translation:

Say: “I am certainly a human being like unto all of you. It has been revealed unto me that your God is One God. So whoever looks forward to (joyfully) meeting his Lord-God, let him act righteously, and let him not ascribe unto anyone or anything a share in the worship due to his Lord-God!”                                                                    

(18:110)

Explanatory translation:

Say (O Prophet): “I am (not divine, not son of God, not any thing like that, rather) a human being like all of you. (And say further O Prophet) it has been revealed unto me that your God is (the) One (and Only) God. So whoever looks forward (with hope and awe) to (happily and joyously) meeting his Lord-God (on Judgment Day), let him act righteously (i.e., let him be righteous in conduct), and let him not ascribe unto anyone or anything a share in the worship due to his Lord-God!” 

Commentary:

Whoever attempts to corrupt the Truth that has come in the Qur’an, and with Nabi Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), must know that they cannot succeed in doing to the faithful followers of Nabi Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), what was done to the followers of Nabi ‘Isa (‘alaihi al-Salam), i.e., to deceive them into corrupting their religion by raising Nabi Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), to any status higher than that of a human being who was chosen as a Prophet and who, consequently, received divine revelation.

In this, the last verse, Surah al-Kahf delivers a parting advice and solemn warning to those believers who long to meet with their Lord-God with hope for His Mercy and blessings. The advice is that they must be righteous in their conduct and must guard against committing Shirk. But the Prophet warned that it would be very difficult in the age of Dajjal to avoid Shirk. Dajjal would attack believers with the weapon of Shirk and endeavor to destroy their faith. But he would use awesome deception in all such efforts and it would be very difficult for anyone to recognize the attack of Shirk.

How difficult? “As difficult”, said the Prophet,  “as it would be to recognize a black ant on a black stone on a dark night”.    

The Shirk of the modern secular State, for example, that claims sovereignty, etc., is now universal. And that universal Shirk has embraced almost all of mankind. They entered into it every time they recognized ‘sovereignty’ higher than that of Allah’s, or beside Allah’s, or ‘supreme authority’ or ‘law’ higher than Allah’s etc.  But mankind is surrounded by many other forms of Shirk today,  such as materialism, and the legalization of that which is Haram in order to make it legal (or Halal). 

The Surah thus ends with a grave warning to those believers who do not strive and struggle to recognize Shirk whenever it manifests itself, who do not make a sufficient effort to protect their faith by abstention from that Shirk, that they will eventually become part of the global society of 999 out of every 1000 who, according to the Hadith alQudsi in Sahih Bukhari, will enter into the hell-fire:

Abu Sa'id reported: Allah's Messenger said: Allah, the High and Glorious, would say: O Adam!! and he would say: At Thy service, at Thy beck and call, O Lord, and the good is in Thy Hand. Allah would say: Bring forth the group of (those consigned to) Hell. He (Adam) would ask: Who (i.e., how many) are those consigned to Hell? It would be said: They are nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand . . . . . He (the narrator) said: This had a very depressing effect upon them (i.e., the companions of the Holy Prophet) and they asked: Messenger of Allah, who amongst us would be (that unfortunate) person (who would be doomed to Hell?) He said: Good news for you, Gog and Magog would be those thousands (who would be consigned to Hell) and a person (selected for Paradise) would be from amongst you. . . .” 

                                              

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Surah Al-Kahf   Arabic Text - Translation And Modern Commentary  by Imran N. Hosein

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Surah Kahf Unveiling The End Time By Sheikh Imran Hosein

Insha Allaah SŪRAH AL-KAHF 18:23-26 TRANSLATION & COMMENTARY

Simple translation:

“And never say about anything, “Behold, I shall do this tomorrow,”

(18:23)

Simple translation:

“Without adding “so please Allah”. And call your Lord-God to mind whenever you lapse to forgetfulness, and say, “I hope and pray that my Lord-God would guide me to remain closer than this to the right path (i.e., than displayed in this act of forgetfulness).”                                   

(18:24) 

Commentary:

The Sirah (life history) of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) has recorded the incident when the Quraish presented him with the three questions posed by the Jewish rabbis of Madinah that could be answered by only a true Prophet and by no one else. They requested him to answer the questions in order to confirm the truth of his claim to be a Prophet. He is reported to have responded by declaring that he would provide the answers the next day while omitting to also say “Insha Allah” (if Allah so wills).  As a consequence he was kept waiting for the arrival of Angel Gabriel with the answers for an embarrassingly long period of two weeks.   

It is quite likely that this “Insha Allah” event did not occur by accident. Rather, it could have been a divine plan through which a warning could be delivered that the age of Dajjal, and of Gog and Magog, would be characterized by an eventual total abandonment in conversation of such sacred terminology as ‘Insha Allah’ which demonstrates a recognition of, and an attachment to, the unseen world of the sacred.  And so, the believers should have the capacity to recognize that age when it emerges since it would threaten to take all to the hellfire. It would be a world in which such sacred terminology would be dropped from everyday conversations because of mainstream public disapproval. That world has now emerged full-blown! It is today’s secular society! How should Muslims respond to that world? Truth does not seek to build bridges with falsehood. Rather it challenges falsehood and eventually defeats it.

Simple translation:

“And they remained in their cave for three hundred years; and some have added nine.”           

(18:25)

Explanatory translation:

“And (some people assert that), they remained in their cave for three hundred years; and some have added nine (to that number in consideration of the fact that the solar calendar exceeds the lunar by three years every one hundred years).”

Simple translation:

Say: “Allah knows best how long they stayed: with Him is the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth: how clearly He sees, how finely He hears! They have no guardian apart from Him, since He allots to no one a share in His rule.”                                                                                  

(18:26)

Explanatory translation:

(But you should conclude the matter by saying): “Allah knows best how long they stayed (in the cave) (since time is multi-dimensional and a day with Allah can be as much as a thousand, or even fifty thousand years by our reckoning): with Him is (the knowledge of) the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth: how clearly He sees, how finely He hears (everything)! No guardian have they apart from Him, since He allots to no one a share in His rule.”

Commentary:

Allah Most High declares that He allots to no one a share in His ‘rule’. This ‘rule’ of His obviously includes His sovereignty, supreme authority and supreme law. Yet the modern secular State, in a monstrous act of Shirk (i.e., blasphemy), has claimed for itself all of these things. It should be clear that the embrace of Shirk of the modern secular State is actually the embrace of Dajjal. Most Muslims today, and even many scholars of Islam, have either embraced the modern secular State without the consciousness or recognition of its Shirk, or they have chosen to remain strangely silent on the matter.

We have, however, explained the subject of the political Shirk of the modern secular State in Part Two of our book entitled Jerusalem in the Qur’an. We pray that this humble book, as well as that previous book, might assist at least some Muslims in extricating themselves from that Shirk. Amin. 

Source: SŪRAH AL-KAHF ARABIC TEXT - TRANSLATION

To Be Continued....

Surah Kahf Unveiling The End Time By Sheikh Imran Hosein