He confused wealth in this life for the favours promised to us by Allah in the Hereafter. One of them is a believer who is grateful for whatever Allah has given him, while the other has been given abundant wealth but developed arrogance and a sense of entitlement over those people lacking such wealth. The next story that Allah gives us, the story of the two men and the gardens, demonstrates how the actions of believers lead to heavenly bliss, while the actions of those who are disbelieving and ungrateful to Allah only lead to disappointment and failure. He demonstrates how His knowledge encompasses every matter, including the stories and knowledge that they themselves have forgotten, that they dispute about, or those they hide such as this story of the People of the Cave. Moreover, through this sign, Allah is also sending a message to the followers of previous Abrahamic faiths. Through this, he provided humanity with clear proof that He is the Creator and that the Resurrection is a reality. Consequently, Allah used their lives as a sign for future believing generations, by giving them a miraculous life. We learn that they were youth who realized that, if they wanted to follow Divine guidance, they would have to isolate themselves from the disbelieving people and their environment. Following the guidance of the Qur’an will lead to salvation, just as Divine guidance of the past led the people mentioned in this surah to their salvation.Īllah begins this surah by relating to us the story of the People of the Cave. This serves as yet another proof of the Qur’an being the true guidance, as mentioned in the first ten verses of the surah. Here, in Surah al-Kahf, we find that Allah offers examples of various people who did follow guidance, and how it saved them from suffering the same fate as the disbelievers. Many of the previous surahs focused on stories of nations that rejected guidance.

Juz 15: “The Honoring of Mankind” Ayat 1-26 The following is excerpted from The Endless Banquet: A Thematic Explanation of the Qur’an (Volume II) by Shaykh Hamzah Abdul Malik, as well as from Recitation of the Glorious Qur’an: Its Virtues, Etiquette, and Specialties by Imam ‘Abdullah Siraj al-Din.

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