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.
To Be Continued....
Surah Kahf Unveiling The End Time By Sheikh Imran Hosein
