Taleem al Quran 2012 – P15 150E Tafsir Al-Kahf 18-21

What are some of them? I call them? And if you were to see them, then you would think them to be awake. Or you call is a plural off Jakub? Yeah. Cough. Yeah with the Fatah er. And he is a person who is awake.

If you saw them

laying in the cave, you will think that they're awake while homebrew cooled while they were in reality sleeping. Would you call this a plural off rocket? Who is rocket? The person who's sleeping? Your code is a person who sleeps a lot.

Like a lot. Your code? Is anyone your code here?

Right now? Is there any truth?

I hope not.

Because you shouldn't be sleeping here. So anyway, so if a person were to see these men sleeping in the cave, you would think that what these guys are awake, they seemed awake, they looked awake. However, in reality they were sleeping. Why would it look like that? Because when a liberal home, we were turning them that really mean to their right, whether at the shemale and to their left, meaning they were being made to toss and turn to the right and to their left constantly in their sleep.

What caliber home and their dog best eaten Bassetts it had outstretched basata is to spread out. The dog had spread out Villa IE, his four legs, his arms, okay. Bill will sleep. At the entrance. We'll see this from the letter as well. So I've done and we'll see this the doorstep The entrance was solid is to close something because when you close a room, you close the entrance, right? Most solder or lay him now most other what is most other locked up closed. All right, meaning the gates are closed, the doors are closed. So we'll sleeve is the entrance. So they had a dog as well. And this dog was sitting at the entrance of the cave. And its arms, four legs were stretched out. So it

seems like the dog was not sleeping.

And the men inside were sleeping but they seemed to be awake. Allah says lowered taller or lay him if you were to look at them. If Allah Tala moraine literally means to rise, and it Allah Allah is to rise and look into something.

Okay? Because when you want to have a good look at something, you need to look at it from above. So Lewith Muladhara him if you were to look at them lower later in home, you would have surely turn away from them. Fear on running away. Meaning you wouldn't stand there a moment, you would turn away and run while emulator and surely you would have been failed men home from them run in fear meaning you, your entire body would be filled with fear of them. Generally what happens the heart is full of fear. But Allah says, Well, I'm elated that all of you would have been full of fear. In other words, if you were to stand at the mouth of the cave, and look at them, look at their dog and look at the

seven guys sleeping inside. You wouldn't stand there a moment you would turn away and run. Because just imagine, in the middle of the mountains is a cave.

And that cave is being guarded by a dog. And that dog is awake.

And inside, you see seven men who seem to be awake. seven men, I mean, who knows who they are. They could be robbers. They could be murderers or something. Right? Because who would go and live in a cave? Seven guys who would hide in a cave and seven of them. So that entire scene was very scary. What does it show that Allah subhanaw taala protected them in this way as well.

Because, you know, travelers passers by, they could have come woken them up, right? Or stolen their money or stolen their belongings. But anyone who even came near to the care when they saw they just ran away.

I was just thinking about the fact that Allah subhanaw taala says he was constantly training them on the side shows. It's such a great mercy because imagine if you were just in one position for 300 years, your whole body would be stiff and stiff and sore, right? So that he come in i Atilla this is all of the miracles. All right.

And this is amazing. And remember at the beginning of this incident, what did we learn that you think this is amazing? It is amazing. But Allah subhanaw taala can do things which are far more amazing. Now there is a quiz question for you.

These guys had something at the entrance of the cave.

What was it?

It was a dog and what was that dog doing? guarding them? And repeatedly it's referred to

As kalpoe home their dog, so it wasn't like a random dog that came from somewhere and just decided to sit there because these guys were nice. No, it was their dog.

So what does that mean?

I have a question for you. Is it allowed to keep a dog?

discuss amongst yourselves

tell the person sitting next to you why you think it's okay to keep a dog and why you think it's not okay to keep a dog

and speak with evidence don't say oh dogs are so cute. Why not?

So when you have your answer ready, raise your hand

Mashallah. Yes

it is not okay. But these guys had a dog

Okay, as a guard dog, okay, yes

good Mashallah. Very good. are working dogs for blind people?

Okay, now, let me tell you a hadith. There's a hadith in which we learn that the Prophet sallallahu sallam said angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or there are pictures if there's a dog in your house angels are not coming, meaning angels of mercy.

Do you remember anywhere else in the Quran where we learned about having a dog?

You read it? Yes.

Okay, that was an example. Any other mention?

Where what what was the context?

Yes, mocha Libby hunting dogs. So there is mentioned of

hunting dogs, I mean, having dogs for the purpose of hunting. Now over here, there's a mention of a dog guarding people. So this shows that as a general rule, as a general rule, having a dog is not permissible meaning buying it, paying money for it, you know, purchasing it, owning it, bringing it into your house, keeping it as a pet as a general rule, it's not permissible. Because if a person keeps a dog, then you know what happens every day. Every day a paid off, you know, a good amount of reward is reduced from his record. Imagine good deeds are removed from your record. However, in a hadith we learn, there are certain exceptions. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said that whoever keeps

a dog except a dog for hurting livestock, animals, like a shepherd dog, hunting or guarding the fields, all right, then, these cases are permissible. But if a person keeps a dog for other than these reasons, than a pee, rot and Pilates, like a mountain will be deducted from his reward every day. This is a Hadith in Sahih Muslim,

even though he said that, in my view, the meaning of this Hadith also includes keeping dogs if there is a purpose, a necessary reason in doing so.

Or if there's a reason to keep a dog for the purposes of warding off any harm.

Like, for example, guarding a house. Okay, now a guard dog over here.

What does that mean? If you have a dog, you have to keep it indoors? Right? And Hamdulillah we live in a place where we don't really need guard dogs like that. However, it's a huge property that in that it makes sense. If it's a huge property that's walled and there is a risk of, you know, people harming you, then in that case, of course, it's reasonable. Likewise, if there's a person who's blind or who's physically disabled, and they need a dog to help them around or to guide them, that is permissible. However, even in that situation, there Aloma have said that this work is not for dogs. It is for who, for human beings, as Muslims, we're supposed to do your son on our disabled,

Muslim brothers and sisters, relatives, friends, we should be kind towards such people and help them out and not leave them to the mercy of dogs. So if a person does not find anybody to help to guide then okay, having a dog for that reason is permissible. However, it's best that there is another human being that's helping them out.

So you understand as a general principle, not okay. However, there is a genuine need.

All right, guarding, searching for hunting. That's okay. Go ahead.

What if you're at a park

and a person walks with their dog and their dog is really friendly, and it comes really close to you and you don't

Don't be rude. But the dog comes in, touches you, brushes by you. So then what do you do?

Keep your eye away from you. Go home, take it off very carefully and throw it in the wash.

What's the deal? Remember that a dog is not entirely unclean. The only thing that is unclean about a dog is it saliva. So if it comes in licks you, then yes, keep your hands away from your body. Okay? And then wash it before you touch anything else. All right. So remember that only the saliva is nudges, the rest of the dog is not. However, if the dog comes and brushes against you, and the dog is wet, and you know your shoe or whatever becomes wet also, then you don't know if that is entirely water or something else. So it's best to wash it off. So is it clear? Is it clear? Okay.

Isn't it interesting that these men they had a dog and they were sleeping in the cave?

Allah special help special mercy. And there's a dog at the entrance not inside with them, cuddling with them, no at the entrance.

And this dog is also benefiting. For 300 years, it's there.

Imagine for 300 years the dog is there. He's also benefiting from company with the righteous. Even a thief said that the dog was included in their blessing. So he slept as they slept in that situation. This is the benefit of keeping company with good people. So this dog was mentioned and was given status do just imagine

what are they only for birth now home and similarly we awaken them, meaning just as we made them sleep, we also

woke them up. Because a person can only sleep if Allah allows him to sleep. And he can only wake up if Allah allows him to wake up. Because sometimes you can you know lying in bed for so long and you're not able to sleep. And you want to get up. But you're not able to get up. So what can elec of artha whom we woke them up, just as we made them sleep Liesa lubaina home. Lee as a consequence, what happened here the sata lubaina They asked each other when they woke up. They asked one another what as to how long they had slept. Because it's normal, right when you wake up then you wonder how long have I been sleeping for? Did I sleep for two hours? Three hours the whole day the whole night?

What time is it? That's the first thing you do right? When you wake up you check what time is it? Or you ask somebody? What time is it? So yes, I sat lubaina home they asked amongst themselves Kanaka illumine home. One of them said a speaker among them said Come Lavista them. How much did you remain here? Meaning how long have you been sleeping? Kalu they said other said Lebra tsna? Yeoman, we've been here for a day. Oh Barbara Yom or part of a day.

300 years of sleep and they say we've been sleeping for maybe one day, or part of a day. What does that show you about their sleep? Very deep sleep. Has it ever happened with you that you sleep at night and then you wake up and you feel like you just slept?

You just slept. And it's been seven hours that you were sleeping six hours that you were sleeping, you didn't even know the whole night just went by so quickly, because you were really deep in your sleep. So likewise, they slept for 300 plus years. However, when they woke up, they could only estimate they were sleeping for a day or part of a day. So when they couldn't figure out how long they were sleeping for Carlu they said Rob Bukom Arlen, here Lord knows best be man of wisdom of how long you remained meaning in this game, how long you've been sleeping? In other words,

what are they say? Allah knows best. Meaning forget about it. How long have we slept? Who cares? What does it matter? We slept now we're awake at Hamdulillah. Let's worry about what we have to do now. And this shows us something very interesting about these men. That how if there was something they couldn't figure out, they didn't dwell over it. They moved on from it. Because there's no point dwelling on things that you cannot find an answer to. If you can find an answer to it, you can find the solution good discuss it, find out research, but when you cannot, then what's best, save your time and move on. So likewise, I said Rob, welcome Arla movie man of wisdom. Ferber I thought so now

send 101 of you be worried. Okay, come with your silver coin.

Had he this? The chose they had money. They didn't leave their homes empty handed. They took something with them. You know, I find this very interesting. They had money.

They took money with them. They slept with their money. I mean, they weren't just men who were you know,

We're working very emotionally. Leave everything to Allah, Allah will take care of us don't care about anything. No, they make a proper plan will go to the cave. They take their money with them.

And then when they wake up they say we need food. They don't just say yeah, I love please send your angels with food. No, they say for birth, who or how that can be worriedly come head he Elon Medina, one of you meaning one of us should get up and go to the city with this money and buy food. They're not saying oh, they're coughing people anyway, go steal some food. What are they saying? Take money and buy food.

Buy food, purchase it, legally acquire it. Don't steal it.

What? From the root letters? Well, Doc off is used for silver coin.

Falando. And when this person one of us, one of the seven men when he goes to the city to buy food fall younger than he should look for? Are you how which of it? Meaning which of its people is as Caltha Aman is purist in food, meaning which person gives the most pure food by a food from him.

So what were they looking for just anything to fill their stomachs with? What were they looking for, as gap, the purest food that they could find.

The thing is that food is a need.

And food is something that we cannot live. We can't live without it. But what you eat defines you.

What you eat matters a lot.

Many times when a person becomes, you know, more focused on the ACA, you think so I don't need to care about my diet. I don't need to care about my food, just eat anything, just put anything in my stomach.

Even if I have good food available to me, you know, I'll be more pious here and not waste my time on eating good food. No, you're not wasting your time on eating good food. If you're looking for good, healthy options, you spend money on it, you spend time, you know finding the best option for yourself. When they were seeking the best food remember, they were not wasting their time because when you are looking for the best option available, and you feed your body, the purest food. What are you doing? Are you doing your body a favor? Yes. Will you have better strength? Yes. Will you have more energy? Yes. So you know in a hadith the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that religion is

very easy. And whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way.

So sometimes what happens is that in the morning, when we leave, we don't have any breakfast. And we say, you know, whatever I'll find I'll just eat it. And you come to school and you find some white bread and you just put that in your body. And then you become sleepy. And then what happens at lunchtime, you say, Oh, I don't have any proper lunch. I'll just have pizza. And then you have more pizza? What nutritional value does it have? Tell me? The croissant that you had in the morning in a rush and that pizza that you're having? What are you eating bread, carbs, pure carbs. And even that is what white bread wish the Prophet sallallahu Sallam told us not to have you know that? Yes, in a

hadith the Prophet sallallahu Sallam advised a companion to not have bread that is made from refined flour, refined as in that from which all the husk has been removed. So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam told him not to do that. Now it's understood if it's once in a while, but every day every week, you're not eating anything proper, and you're just filling your body with garbage, garbage on garbage. And then you wonder why my health is so bad? Why do I feel sleepy? And why don't I have energy? And why is my iron so low? Because you're not eating properly? Eat properly. It's a priority. Look at these men, they're hiding in the cave to save their life. And what are they

concerned about?

Eating good food, eating proper food. It is important. And then also remember that when you're living in a non Muslim land, like these people, they were getting their food from a non Muslim land right? What are they looking for? The purest option available? The purest mean the most Halal option available, so they looked for the halal option. And likewise, we must also do our best to find the most Halal option. Don't just say everything is okay. I'll just say Bismillah. Whatever. No. Look for the most Halal option. So far younger AU has Katana failure to convince men who then he should bring food from the city while Yatala puff and he should be careful. What I usually run

have become a hada. And no one should come to know about you. Meaning Be very careful. This word polyethylene puff is from the letters lamb tall fat a lot of Delta have is to be very careful, to be secret, to quietly do something in a very subtle way, so that nobody finds out about it.

One of the names of Allah subhanaw taala is a lovely,

why? Because he executes his plans in such a way that a person does not even realize. And where is his name mentioned in which story

so that you sort of remember in the rugby lottery for Li Maya. So while yet a lot of you should be careful, quietly, meaning don't attract unnecessary attention.

Isn't this interesting

that you're going in the midst of your enemy, go very carefully. Be alert, don't attract unnecessary attention. And the lack of secondly also means to be kind to be good and pleasant to be generous. Meaning he should be polite and civil. Don't be rude. Don't be offensive, because then you get yourself in trouble. What do we think getting yourself in trouble is cool. Right? So when you're going to the airport, and they ask you some questions, and you say, Yeah, you know, I'm gonna blow up the plane.

You say something like that, and you look so cool. But you know what you're going to be in a lot of trouble. If you say something like that. Don't try to be cool there. Don't try to attract unnecessary attention, and be polite. While you get a lot of even when you're dealing with non Muslims. Be polite, be civil, interact in an honest way.

We think about how you're talking, think about how you're standing. Think about how you're dealing with the other person. I mean, sometimes it's amazing how we forget about all our manners.

When we're in public, the loudest kids will be us

hours. If you find people arguing or shouting, sometimes you turn around and go do you see

I don't need to say who you know exactly what I'm talking about. Be extra polite, be extra courteous. Be extra nice. Walia. Talaq puff Wallah, you sure you're gonna become a hoarder, and don't let anyone find out about you. Meaning as to where you're hiding. Don't let anyone follow you. Where you are in the cave. Don't let anybody find out about that. Why? Because in the home indeed, these people are a nation El Dorado Aleikum if they come to know of you. And Mahara also means to gain dominance, meaning if they come to know about your whereabouts, and they gain dominance over you, if they capture you, what are they going to do? Your do Muqaam they're going to stone you to

death from Rajim Raji mean to stone someone to that mean, they're going to kill you, oh, you're a duco. Or they're going to return you or they will do to return mean, they're going to force you to return female, letting him in their nation in their religion. And if you return well, and to flee who even other than you shall never, ever succeed if you return to your old waves. So what are they saying? That use every possible way to protect yourself from the enemy? What does this ayah teach us that it is not allowed for a believer to put himself in

unnecessary hardship?

You're not supposed to put yourself in trouble. You should protect yourself from trouble. You should not put yourself in the mouth of death. Playing with your life. This is not bravery. Playing with your reputation, this is not bravery. And this is a reason why majority of the dilemma What do they say? You know, doing something like suicide bombing even this is not bravery. This is not shahada because you're causing more trouble. And you are killing yourself because there's no chance of survival. You're not allowed to kill yourself. Allah says let Dr. Lu and full circle the prophets have a lot of cinema also said that if a person kills himself, then he will continue to do that

until the Day of Judgment. Meaning if he stabs himself with a knife with a dagger, then he will continue to do that in the buzzer until the Day of Judgment imagine and constant pain, it's a major sin.

And people are you that no no for the cause of Islam. Go blow yourself up. No. And they will get evidences like, you know, for example, one of the companions when the Sahaba had laid siege around a particular city, one of the Sahaba said throw me over the wall. Throw me over the wall so I can go in and open the gates of the city. So they said oh, look, he basically said kill me because throwing him in was killing

him? No, there was a chance of survival.

There was a chance of survival. But if a person dies bombs around his body, is there a chance of survival?

No, this is killing yourself. This is not martyrdom. This is killing yourself and you're not allowed to do that. Look at the care that these people are taking. We have to avoid conflict, we have to preserve our life. Because to live and worship Allah is also good. We think dying for Allah is good. Living for Allah is even harder. Living for Allah is even harder, but we want the easy way out.

So they say, Well, are you sure you wanna become a Harada? Don't let anyone find out about you. You see, everyone here in Islamic nation when they threatened him, what did he do? He migrated. Musa alayhis salam, when he found out that people were planning to kill him, what did he do, he left Egypt and he went to Medina. Remember when he accidentally murdered someone. The Prophet said a lot of them also migrated. So this is the reason why it's best to avoid. It's best to keep yourself safe, and not throw yourself in harm in danger. throwing yourself in danger in trouble is not being brave.

So what happened, these people were trying to hide themselves to the best of their ability, but Allah subhanaw taala expose them what Gallica orthogonal or lay him and thus, similarly, we cause them to be found. Allah made them sleep, Allah made them wake up, and Allah caused them to be discovered, or Thumbelina, from our own thorough thought or thought is to come across something. And it's basically to come to know of something by chance you weren't looking for it, but you just found it by chance. You know, for instance, you lose a card, and what happens? You're going through your door one day, thinking I should better clean it. And then by chance you find that card after three

months. This is what I thought. So the people of the city were not looking for the seven men, but they found them on some gnarly him. Leon mo so that the people would know and know Abdullah he helped that indeed, the Promise of Allah is true. Which promise

which promise resurrection, that if Allah can cause someone to sleep for 300 years, and cause them to wake up perfectly fine. Then when people die, can Allah not raise them back to life? Of course he can.

And also the promise over here refers to the promise of Allah's help.

People would realize that Allah's promise is true. Well under the Santa and indeed the our loughrea Buffy, there's no doubt about it. It's definitely coming. When would the people realize this? When would the people come to know of this, if yet and as their own abena, whom Umbra whom, when they were arguing between themselves about their affair whose affair the affair of these seven men? Because the thing is that when one of them one of the seven men, he went to the city to buy food, obviously he realized things had changed. And remember I mentioned to you that these men had embraced and accepted the teachings of Rhys artists and I'm and at that time, there was no shift,

the teachings were still very pure in their original form.

And the king was a Roman king, and the religion was of Schick and anyone who believes in the message of resort if someone wants to be killed, so these men they escaped, they stopped in the game for 300 years, when they woke up. One of them he went to the city and he saw, everybody is different. Everything is different, everything has changed. And in those 300 years, what happened was that now the Romans were actually Christians, all of them had embraced the religion of resources.

So what does it show? Allah's promise is true.

Allah helps his servants.

Allah helps his servants. For 300 years, they were kept away from all of this trouble. And meanwhile, what happened? Everybody changed, the whole society was changed. So one of the seven men, I'm sure he must have gone back or something and the rest of the men came. And Allahu Arlin when they died their natural deaths, either soon after they were discovered or years later, Allahu Arlon. But whenever they died, what happened? The people of the city, they began to dispute amongst themselves regarding goo regarding the seven men, that what should we do about their graves? We don't want them to be forgotten. That yes, now they've died and now we've buried them, but we want

them to be remembered. And remember that the followers of Greece our listener, they did not have much knowledge. And this is a reason why they deviated very quickly a lot of wrong things entered into the religion shook as

well as many other things, so some of the people they said for color so they said over and over, I lay him construct over them meaning over their graves, banana and a building, built a monument, a structure over their graves, so that they remembered

what boom Ireland will be him. Their Lord knows best about them. Meaning Allah knows best about their whole story. This is what the people said, Allah Ladino holla boo, those people who were dominant or somebody whom over their affair who's affair, the affair of these seven men, they said, Leonard though he then narrowly him, surely we're definitely going to make over their meeting over their graves, masjid and a masjid, a place of prayer.

They said, We're not just going to make a monument over their graves, we're going to make a mosque, a place where people can come and worship God. And they can, you know, seek blessing from the seventh sleepers and take baraka and so on and so forth.

Now, was this correct? This was incorrect. All right, because the Prophet salallahu Salam said, that beware of those who preceded you, and used to take the graves of their prophets and righteous men as places of worship. Beware, don't do the same thing. You must not take graves as mosques. don't convert graves into misogyny I forbid you to do that. The Prophet saw a lot of them close to his death. He said, May Allah curse the Jews and Christians, for they have taken the graves of their prophets as places of worship. So taking the grave as a place of worship, this is something that is not allowed. However, people after them did that. Why? Because religion was corrupted, it was

changed. Now, the following I talk about the number of those men, how many were there, the differences that people have? So far, what do we learn?

When people did meet them after 300 years when they were discovered?

What happened?

I just told you what happened? Answer me. I want to make sure that you actually understood, did the die immediately.

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They died many years later. Allah knows best.

But the people of the city, they came in contact with the Seven Sleepers. All right. And when they did, they came to know about their story that oh, these men slept 300 years ago. So they're the men who were living at that time, at the time of that King. That was ages ago. And you see, the people of that time they had, like I mentioned the religion had been corrupted. And one of the main problems they were having in their upheaval was that belief in the Agora was not correct anymore. Some people said there will be resurrection, but there's no eternity. And others said there is no resurrection. So they had problems in their appeal also. So when they saw the seven people waking up

after 300 years, what did they realize? Can Allah resurrect? Even the body? Yes, he can. So there were numerous benefits in this incident. First of all these men their lives were spared.

Then, secondly, people's or Qaeda was corrected. Thirdly, another benefit was that people came to realize that Allah's promise is true, which promise promise of helping his servants giving victory to his servants, those who try to be firm that Allah will protect them, Allah will preserve their faith. What other lessons do we learn from their story?

Come on, tell me so that you can go I'm not letting you go.

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Okay, read the whole story. It began with what that Allah can do amazing things. Amazing things. This is unusual, extraordinary. But don't think this is all there is more that Allah can do. There's more help that Allah subhanaw taala can give you but for that, do you need to do something? What do you need to do? Take the first step. remain firm. And Allah will show you the way may Allah subhanaw taala show all of us the way recitation water saboom A ball hold one boom that

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