Friday, March 29, 2024

Quranic stories pt.10 by Sh Tariq Appleby

 The people of the cave:

The people of the cave are people who accepted Islam, but in doing so they had to leave the village that they hold dear.

And prayed to Allah for protection, also something of note, is that they worked to find hide, instead of praying "Please give us a place to hide". And stayed unhidden.

Once the people of their village found out that they converted to Islam, they got chased out of the city, and then they ran into a cave and tried to hide from the townspeople, the dog was left at the entrance to the cave. Allah told a spider to put a web at the entrance of the cave to hide from the villages.

The townspeople saw the spider web at the cave entrance and the dog and thought "They are not in this cave, as they would have had to break the web, and there is a dog there. We should not venture any further". And Allah made them sleep for hundreds of years. 
Allah put them to sleep and "resurrected" them after they fell asleep. As when you have

This verse is important, as it underlines the leaving for the sake of religion, and leaving their life behind.


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