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“And propound unto them the parable of
the life of this world: (it
is) like the rain which We send down from the skies, and which is absorbed
by the plants of the earth: but (in time) they turn into dry stubble
that the winds blow freely about. And it is Allah (alone) who prevails
over all things.”
(18:45)
Commentary:
There is a powerful and compelling
demonstration of Allah’s power in this reference to the passage of nature from rain,
to greenery and finally to dry stubble freely blown about by the wind. The life
of this world is like that. Nothing remains forever; everything perishes and
passes away; and it is Allah alone Who prevails. Those, therefore, who betray
Allah Most High for a US visa or Green Card, or for borrowing money on interest
to do business and for other such reasons, are a people who have acted quite
foolishly. Just a glance at the passage of nature from greenery to dry stubble
should be sufficient to teach them to recognize the folly of their conduct in
which they foolishly allowed the Duniyah to take precedence in their
lives over submission to Allah as the Supreme Being in their lives.
Simple
translation:
“Wealth and children are an adornment
of the life of this world: but good deeds, the fruit whereof endures forever,
are of far greater merit in thy Lord-God’s sight, and far better as (the foundation for) hope.”
(18:46)
Commentary:
There are transient things in the
world that men hanker for, such as wealth and children. But there is something
else that is better since it abides beyond the count of time – and that is good
deeds. And so, as the world becomes more and more corrupt in the Last Age, and
as darkness envelops the world, the believer should strive to remain constant
in his endeavor to be righteous in conduct and to do good deeds.
Simple
translation:
“Hence the Day on which We shall cause
the mountains to disappear and the earth would appear as void and bare as a
level stretch: for We will gather them all together, leaving out not a single
one of them.”
(18:47)
Explanatory
translation:
“Hence, (let mankind bear in mind) the Day,
on which We shall cause the mountains to disappear and the earth would appear
as void and bare as a level stretch: for (on that Day) We will (resurrect
the dead and) gather them all (i.e., all of mankind) together,
leaving out not a single one of them.”
Commentary:
The Surah now returns to the
compelling imagery of the Last Day, i.e., the resurrection and the gathering of
mankind for the judgment from which none can escape. It is the constant
consciousness of this coming event that assists believers in the greatest
measure as they struggle to respond to the awesome tests and trials of the Last
Age.
Simple
translation:
And they will be lined up before thy
Lord-God, “Now, indeed, you have come unto Us, even as We created you in the first instance -
although you were wont to assert that We would never appoint for you (this
day of our) meeting!”
(18:48)
Explanatory
translation:
And they will be lined up before thy
Lord-God, (and He
will say) “Now, indeed, you have come unto Us (in a bare, naked, lonely
state), even as We created you in the first instance - although you were
wont to assert that We would never appoint for you (this day of our) meeting (i.e.,
when all of Allah’s creatures would have to appear before Him for judgment)!”
Commentary:
Narrated
Ibn Abbas: The Prophet said, “You will be gathered (on the Day of Judgment),
bare-footed, naked and uncircumcised.” He then recited: “As We produced the
first creation, so shall We reproduce it. This is a promise We shall assuredly
fulfill.” (Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21.104) He added, “The first to be
dressed on the Day of Resurrection will be Abraham, and some of my companions
will be taken towards the left side (i.e. to the (Hell Fire), and I will say:
My companions! My companions! It will be said: They renegaded from Islam after
you left them". Then I will say as the pious slave of Allah (i.e. Jesus) said,
"And I was a witness Over them while I dwelt amongst them. When You took me up
You were the Watcher over them, And You are a witness to all things. If You
punish them. They are Your slaves. And if You forgive them, Verily you, only
You, are the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.”
(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5.117)
Who are those Muslims who would
receive that awesome shock on the Day of Judgment when they learn to their horror
that their lord-God has refused to recognize them to be Muslims? First amongst
them must be those who, in this age of intense war on Islam and on the
rightly-guided scholars of Islam, remain supporters of the Jewish-Christian alliance
which now rules the world from Washington.
Simple
translation:
And the record will be laidopen and you will behold those guilty filled
with terror at what lies therein; and they will exclaim: “Oh, woe unto us! What
a record is this! It leaves out nothing, be it small or great, but takes everything
into account! For they will find all that they ever did facing them, and your
Lord-God is not unjust to anyone.”
(18:49)
Explanatory
translation:
And the record (of everyone's deeds) will be
laidopen and you will behold those
guilty (of manifestly sinful conduct in the pursuit of wealth, power,
privilege, lust, status, etc.,) filled with terror at what (they see)
therein; and they will exclaim: “Oh, woe unto us! What a record is this! It
leaves out nothing, be it small or great, but takes everything into account!
For they will find all that they ever did (now) facing them, and (will
know that) your Lord-God is not unjust to anyone.”
Commentary:
And so they will face unflinching
absolute justice in which they cannot bribe the judge, or their victim’s
lawyer, to get the case postponed again and again, nor can they hire
high-priced lawyers who would intimidate the victim, as happens so frequently
with insurance cases, nor can they ‘scam’ their way to subvert justice in any
other devilish way. Absolute justice also necessarily implies no over-looking
of deeds, big or small. Of course this Judge has announced that it is His
prerogative to show mercy by forgiving whomsoever He wishes, and thus erasing
sins from their record.*
(*May Allah have mercy on that
dreadful day on this writer, and on both his parents, and on the believers. Amin!)
“And (for many a year) you could have
seen the sun, on its rising, incline away from their cave on the right, and, on
its setting, turn aside from them on the left, while they lay in the open space
in the midst of the Cave, and this constituted a sign from Allah (bearing
witness to this) of Allah’s messages: (that) He whom Allah guides, he
alone has found the right way; whereas for him whom He lets go astray you can
never find any protector who would point out the right way.”
(18:17)
Simple
translation:
“And you would have thought that they
were awake, whereas they lay asleep. And We caused them to turn over
repeatedly, now to the right, now to the left; and their dog (lay) on the threshold, its
fore paws outstretched. Had you come upon them (unprepared), you would
surely have turned away from them in flight, and would surely have been filled
with terror of them.”
(18:18)
Commentary:
It should be clear that the movement
of the young men’s bodies when they rolled from left to right, and then right
to left, was in response to attraction to sunlight, - a scientific principle
known as phototropism. Hence Surah al-Kahf is here directing attention
of the believers to the study of the nature and constitution of the material
universe, - a study otherwise known as the scientific quest.
Elsewhere we find evidence that Dajjal
would be the master-mind of a scientific and technological revolution which he
would exploit to his advantage. But the Surah also directs special
attention to the strategic importance of harnessing solar energy and,
therefore, all other natural sources of energy such as wind and waves of the
sea, during the age of Dajjal. Only thus would theyescape from
the clutches of those who first impoverish a people through Riba, then
trap them into dependency on the electricity grid and imported oil for energy,
then attack their currency to increase the price of energy to such an extent
that people become helpless to resist, and then finally offer them an escape
from this misery, or, better, a ride on the gravy train, in exchange for their
entering into the embrace of those who rule the world on behalf of the
Euro-Jewish State of Israel. Very few would resist the temptation of escaping
from poverty and embracing the good life through acceptance of, and submission
to, Israel’s rule over the world. This book is written with the hope that it
may inspire coming generations of Muslims to resist all those attacks of Dajjal
and to make every sacrifice in order to preserve faith.
If and when Muslims wake up to the
imperative of disconnecting from the godless embrace of the modern secular world
and of seeking to preserve their faith through the establishment of remotely
located Muslim Villages they must remember to make every effort to achieve
energy independence through harnessing solar energy (for example). They must
also ensure for themselves an independent supply of water.
It is also important for us to note
very carefully that the young men paid careful attention to the matter of
security. Their method of exercising caution was to take a dog with them. And
so Surah al-Kahf directs attention to the importance of security and, in
so doing, gives prominence to the watch-dog.
Simple
translation:
“And so We awakened them that they
might question each other.”One of them asked: How long have you remained thus? (Some)answered: “We have remained thus for a day,
or part of a day.” (Others) said: “Your Lord-God knows best how long you
have thus remained. Let then one of you go with these silver coins
to the town, and let him search for the purest food there and bring you some
food. But let him exercise vigilance and caution and by no means make anyone
aware of you:”
(18:19)
Explanatory
translation:
“And so, (in the course of time) We awakened
them (from sleep); that they might question each other (as to what
had happened to them).” One of them asked: How long have you remained thus? (Some
of them) answered: “We have remained thus for a day, or part of a day.” (Otherswho were endowed with internal intuitive spiritual insight) said:
“Your Lord-God knows best how long you have thus remained. Let, then, one of
you go with these silver coins to the town, and let him search for the purest
food there (since the godless world had corrupted food to the extent that
people were reduced to eating the equivalent of garbage), and bring you some
food. But let him exercise vigilance and caution and by no means make anyone
aware of you (by unnecessarily exposing your profile of faith):”
Commentary:
It is instructive that the (Arabic)
word in the text of the Qur’an that was translated as ‘vigilance and
caution’ is located in the exact middle of the whole Qur’an. This is
surely a sign from Allah Most High that warns Muslims of grave danger that
awaits them in the Last Age. It should elicit from them compliance with that
advice and warning.
Secondly, the fact that some of the
youths reckoned the time that they spent while asleep in the cave to have been
just “a day or part of a day”, while others expressed doubt concerning that
answer, is indicative of the multi-dimensional nature of time. The Surah
thus directs the attention of the reader to the necessity of examining the
subject of ‘time’ with great care, and we have thus devoted a section of this
book to that subject.
Simple
translation:
“For, behold, if they should come to
know of you they will stone you, or force you back to their way of life, in which
case you would never succeed.”
(18:20)
Explanatory
translation:
“For, behold, if they should come to
know of you (i.e., if
they should discover your profile of faith), they will stone you (i.e.,
resort to a deliberate policy of demonization and intimidation, or cursing,
reviling, damning andterrorizing you by declaring that you are a
“terrorist” and “a great security risk”, etc.), or force you back to
mainstream godlessness (to submit as a slave to their authority and to join
the crowd of mainstream godlessness) - in which case you would never
succeed.”
Commentary:
The war on Islam is such that it
offers the Muslim a choice between two alternatives. Either the Muslim must
submit to those who rule the world and in so doing he must compromise his faith
to the extent necessary for him to be accommodated into the Gog and Magog
world-order, or he must expect to be ostracized, demonized and persecuted. If he
responds to that war on Islam in the manner in which the youth of Surah
al-Kahf responded then there is a divine promise of help and blessings.*
(*We believe that it would
benefit the reader to know what happened to us when we returned to our own
native island of Trinidad in 2003 in order to write this very book. There is a
profound lesson for Muslims in this event and for this reason we have taken the
liberty to record it here as a footnote for the benefit of later generations.
This
writer was maliciously attacked by two profoundly misguided and awesomely evil
so-called leaders of a local Muslim organization, and was publicly accused of
being a “great security risk” and to be engaged in “terrorist-like preaching of
Islam”. That so-called Islamic organization placed a ban on him preventing him
from preaching and lecturing on Islam and delivering the sermon (Khutbah)
of Salat al-Juma’ah. The local non Muslim print and electronic media gleefully
jumped in to ensure that the public was brainwashed with a thoroughly negative image
of this writer. After that attack of character assassination the assassins reaped
their bloodstained rewards. Some of my own Muslim people began to shun me and
to minimize their contact with me. I was no longer invited to teach and lecture
or to conduct the Salat al-Juma’ah in many Masajid. Television (including
cable), radio and newspapers shunned me and the only way I could reach the
public was by way of buying newspaper space.
Within
less than a year of the attack, however, one of the two people who launched the
attack was stopped (by the Police Commissioner himself) on the road one night
while drunk, and he was charged with driving while under the influence of
alcohol (i.e., drunk driving). He responded to that public disgrace by
committing suicide two days later. The misguided Jamaat to which he
belonged buried him with Salat al-Janazah and with ringing praise for
his great achievements.
The
fate of the second so-called leader may be even worse than that unless, of
course, he repents and turns away from his evil and misguided conduct. Such a
divine response to wicked war on Islam and on the scholars of Islam constitutes
a Sign from Allah Most High.)
Simple
translation:
“And in this way have We drawn attention
to their story, so that they might know that Allah’s promise is true, and that
there can be no doubt as to the Last Hour. And so, as they argued their case
among themselves some said: “Erect a building over them; Allah knows best what
happened to them.” Said they whose opinion prevailed in the end: “Indeed, we
must surely raise a Masjid (i.e.,
a house of worship) in their memory!”
(18:21)
Explanatory
translation:
“And in this way have We drawn
attention to their story, so that they might know - (whenever they debate among themselves
as to what happened to those young men of the Cave) that Allah’s promise (of
divine help for those who are targeted by the war on Islam) is true, and
that there can be no doubt as to (the coming of) the Last Hour. And so,
as they argued the matter among themselves some said: “(let us) erect a
building over them”; Allah knows best what happened to them. Said they whose
opinion prevailed in the end: “Indeed, we must surely raise a Masjid (a
temple or house of worship) in their memory!”
Commentary:
The fact that a suggestion was made to
erect a Masjid in honor of the youths, and in memory of the miracle,
indicates that the godless world that was waging relentlesswar on Islam had vanished, and had been
replaced by a world that now worshipped Allah Most High. Surah al-Kahf
here provides the greatest hope of all to the Muslims of this age who are
experiencing precisely that relentless war on Islam, and whose faith in Allah
Most High is being sorely tested. The Surah holds out hope to the
Muslims that this long dark night of monstrous lies, deception, barbaric
oppression and slaughter, would not last forever, and that there is a tomorrow
that is coming when the Truth will once again triumph over falsehood. And so,
they should not despair, should not lose hope, and should not compromise in
respect of their faith.*
(*We expect that Islam would
triumph over all its rivals as well as enemies within the next fifty years Insha Allah.)
Simple
translation:
“(And in times to come) some would
say, “(They were) three, the fourth of them being their dog,” while
others would say, “Five, with their dog as the sixth of them” - idly guessing
at something of which they can have no knowledge - and (so on, until)
some would say, “(They were) seven, the eighth of them being their dog.
Say: “My Lord-God knows best how many
they were. None but a few have any (real)knowledge of them. Hence, do not argue about them otherwise than by way of an
obvious argument, and do not ask any of those (story-tellers) to
enlighten you about them.”
(18:22)
Commentary:
There is a warning given here to the
effect that in later times an attempt would be made to divert attention from
the essence of the event itself to such peripheral matters of dispute as, for
example, the number of youths who were in the cave. This is a clear indication
that the war on Islam now raging in the world would witness the adoption of
precisely this strategy of focusing divisive attention on peripheral sectarian
issues such as the celebration of the Prophet’s birth anniversary in order to
divert attention away from the creeping political dictatorship and economic
slavery that is descending upon mankind even as we write this book.
Muslims should not allow themselves to
be distracted by such ‘red herrings’ (i.e., unimportant and irrelevant disputes).
Rather they should concentrate their attention on the understanding of the
substance of the events and on the proper response that emerges from divine
guidance imparted in this Qur’an and actualized in the life of Prophet Muhammad
(sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam).
The verse also reveals that those who
posed the question to the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa
sallam)did
not have precise knowledge of the subject themselves, whereas Allah Most High,
who here reveals the answer to the question, possesses precise knowledge of the
subject. And so the Rabbis should accept this Qur’an to be the
uncorrupted Word of the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam).
