Yasir Qadhi – Tafseer Surah Al Kahf Part 06 Promise Of Allah And 7 Sleepers

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah who Allah Allah he was at b1 wala.
		

			We now move on to verse number 19 of suited calf. And in this verse and onwards the story of the
Seven Sleepers continues and we learn Allah subhana wa tada says Waka beisner home Leah Tessa Urbina
home and this is how we buy a home and buy it. Now home generally is used when you're resurrecting
the dead. It's not used when you're waking up. But Allah subhanho wa Taala uses the word die for
that because they slept for such a long time. It was as if they had literally died. It is as if we
resurrected them what karateka is now home, Leah Tessa Albania home so that they began questioning
one another, or the woman whom come live with them. One of them said, How long do you think we have
		

			slept, they saw that the situation had changed. They saw that the time of day had moved on. Some say
they went to sleep in the morning when they woke up. It was late afternoon. So the time had been
more than usual when you go to sleep for now. So one of them said we must have slept for a day or
half a day or would have eaten a Yeoman about a young
		

			man will be madder with them. They said Allah knows how long you slept that's not the important
point. The point is we're hungry now. We want something to eat so forever I thought I had taken
hardy take this silver workers silver coins, take this silver and go back to the city for wonder au
has gotta Harmon and see what is the purest food they can find with this money for your convenience.
The men who will bring back this sustenance for us well yet a lot of and make sure that you are
discreet, make sure nobody sees you. When are you around, they become a hoarder. And nobody should
discern, nobody should detect you. And this shows us many things. It shows us that their city was a
		

			relatively large city so that they didn't worry about being recognized there was a large city over
there. This also shows us that they had some money with them. Some of the scholars have said that
these were all sons of nobleman, and when they fled they had taken some of the money that they owed
so that they could they didn't know what they will do. So they took some money in order to go into
exile. Also, we learned from this as in this is a very interesting point. They're being persecuted.
They're trapped in a cave, and they want some food. And yet their leader says make sure you bring
back Pure Food. Some of the scholars comment they said this was a pagan city and the Muslims are the
		

			righteous people are the people who slaughtered properly were very few. So they said don't go to the
pagan slaughters. Make sure you get the Pure Food as
		

			they wanted the purest food. And this shows us that Pure Food has a very important relationship to
answering our doors. Pure Food shows us how much we care about Allah subhana wa tada Riscal Hara.
Pure risk is a real sign of taqwa. Because when you monitor what you're eating, and when you monitor
where your money comes from, this really shows how conscientious you are how much taqwa you have.
And here we have the people trapped in a cave. And one would think the last thing on their minds is
what type of food they're getting. But no, it shows us they have a human. And so when they send the
person, they say, get the purest food eschaton don't get the pagan meat, get the meat of our
		

			brethren and the scholars say there were some secret Muslims, there were some secret believers and
Allah, they had slaughtered proper food. So they're saying go to that place that will give you that
proper food as scelta Iman and bring forth from us some good sustenance and make sure nobody, nobody
finds out who you are. This also shows us an interesting point. These people have clearly
demonstrated their emotion. They have fled for their safety, they have sought protection in the
cave. They clearly have to walk put in a law, but this doesn't mean they should act foolishly.
tawakkol does not mean you act foolishly. their elders says Be careful when you're tough at
		

			discreetly whether you share on the cover. Make sure nobody notices you don't draw attention to
yourself. You see, being a believer does not mean acting full heartedly. being courageous does not
mean acting foolishly. courage and foolishness are not the same thing. What they did was courageous,
but they said don't act stupidly. Don't act foolishly. Don't draw attention to yourself.
		

			So the movement is brave, the movement is not foolhardy. The movement has to look good, but the
movement takes precautions. The believer doesn't just say, okay, Allah will protect me without
having a plan. In fact, in the Battle of God, we learned the Prophet system had a plan. He had a
strategy.
		

			He told us when he marched to the bottom of our process and was wearing two armors to double layer
protection, is anybody going to accuse the process of not having to tell what cool means you take
the necessary precautions to what cool means you act sensibly. So here they are trapped in a cave,
they have to get food so they said at discreetly don't bring undue attention to yourself. Now in a
very beautiful way, Allah subhana wa tada tells us, how were they discovered? What was it Allah
mentions one fact go with this coinage go with this one. And we know that coins they keep on
changing. They keep on changing. So Allah alludes to how they were discovered. And Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala says of the next verse, in the home in the auto, it is still the conversation continuing. If
your people figure out who you are, you're a Jew muqaam they will stone you, all your ego confirming
that to him, or they will force you to return to their midlet to their ways. And if that happens,
what unto flipo Abba, you would never be successful. In this verse, we learn why they fled. Why did
they run away, their people wanted to kill them because they refuse to worship the false gods. So
they fled away from that persecution. And when they fled away, they said, careful, we don't want to
get caught again, if we're caught, we will either die or we're going to be forced to go back to
		

			shitcan Kufa and this also shows us something that we all know common sense sensibility. Our
religion doesn't want us to become martyrs for no reason. Our religion says if you can preserve your
life goal and preserve it, don't become martyrs foolishly. Don't just stay there and be punished and
be killed. If you can flee for your lives. Go ahead and flee our religion, values life, our religion
does not throw life foolishly. And this is also a point of using your life in the best manner
possible. These people could have become martyrs, if they stayed where they were. But what is the
point of dying for no reason? What is the point of staying there when they have the option of
		

			fleeing, and our religion says preserve religion and preserve life and preserve sanity and preserve
wealth. All of these are the Macalester or the goals of the shittier that we are supposed to
preserve. So Allah says what I thought when I lay him, this is how we cause the other people to find
them out. This is how they were discovered how because of the coinage. It is said that when he came
with this coinage, he was amazed that nobody was accepting this coin, and he couldn't recognize
anything in the city. 300 years had gone by, and nobody seems to be familiar to him, all the
shopkeepers, all of the most everything is different. So he goes to a mall and he hands over this
		

			coinage, and they say, what is this coin, we don't know this coin. So the coin goes to another
trader, another trader, until finally they thought he had come across some treasure, because when
you have silver dating back 300 years, this is very priceless. Even in our times, if we discovered
treasure going back 300 years, this was a fortune. So that people accosted him, accusing him of
finding a treasure until finally he was forced to go to the senior bishop. And again, this is if we
take the Christian narrative, and we'll talk about that in a little while that if the story involves
Christians, the story goes as follows that when he returned to the city, 300 years later, the city
		

			had become Christian. The city had embraced Christianity, and instead of becoming pagan, instead of
being pagan, they worship Allah subhanho wa Taala. And the cloud is Jesus Christ. So when this man
comes back, he sees the whole city change, he is caught, he is accosted, he tells the people his
whole story. And he mentioned to them the Emperor that was persecuting them. And he says, Where is
that Emperor? And they say that Emperor, that Emperor has long gone 300 years have gone so the he
shows them the coinage they take him to the bishop, the bishop cannot believe destroyed. He says,
Come with me. Let me show you my companions. So he returns with the senior bishop to their cave, and
		

			they see in reality, yes, their utensils, their coinage, the clothes they're wearing. Everything is
from that epoch. Everything is from that era, and everything fits and it has said and the Quran
alludes to this that when the bishop returned and he saw all of the seven at that point in time
Allah subhana wa tada caused the seven to pass away the he they basically died at that time and
natural death when they were discovered by the people what catches the eye for now it him. This is
how we cause the community to discover them. Why Leon underwired de la Huck so that they may know
that the promise of Allah is true. What is the promise of Allah that Allah will help
		

			His servants that Allah subhana wa tada will save his believers that Allah subhana wa tithers Nasir
is always on the side of the believers, as Allah says in the Quran in surah comilla who follow hardy
bellicum If Allah helps you nobody can overcome you, as Allah subhana wa tada says, one
		

			minute mini sebelah never will those who reject have the upper hand over those who believe this is
the law. This is the promise of Allah and Allah subhana wa tada his promises never broken. So Allah
says that in the wider law he has let them know that the promise of a lot is true. And let them also
know that the Day of Judgment, there is no disagreement about it. Where did the Day of Judgment come
from? Wonderful law can cause the person to sleep for 300 years, then bring them back. Surely a law
can cause the dead to come back as well. So this was a sign that the Day of Judgment is true, it was
a living sign that they could see that the Day of Judgment is true, idiot and as
		

			they began debating amongst themselves, what should be done with their bodies, what should be done
with this area here for
		

			him banyana one group said, Let us build a monument. Let us erect a monument and obey Him. Allah
knows all that happened on living under him, those who eventually won in the end of the day, they
said, then attack it and it he must Judah, we will do a place of worship where these people are. Now
it is very interesting to note and some of you asked me about this all going to just a bit of a
tangent here that the story as we said does exist in other cultures. And the earliest reference we
have to the story of the Seven Sleepers. It is the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ep htsus, the seven
snipers of emphasis and it is first recorded from a historian of the Syriac Christian church by the
		

			name of Yaqoob a settle you settle up Jacob of Cyril and he died around 520 or so CE II. So this is
before the Prophet system before the the revealing of the Quran by over a century. So he records and
he says this goes back a few 100 years. So he doesn't tell us his original source. But we have the
original Syriac manuscripts, the original manuscripts of this Jaco person of this Jacob person, and
this predates Islam. And he tells us the story that there were seven Christians in the time of the
Emperor, one of the pagan emperors I forgot his name now. Sorry, it is written here, the Emperor
decius, the Emperor decius, who died 250 See, the Emperor decius was a pagan, and he persecuted the
		

			Christians. And he caught a group of seven young men, and he typed them up to kill them. A lot
allowed them to escape. And the seven young men escaped This is according to the legend here, not
according to the Quran, this is the legends story, and they fled to the cave. And according to the
legend, this is where it differs from the Koran. According to the legend, the king block them up so
that they would die a miserable death, they can block the cave, and according to the Quran, the cave
was open and the sun would rise and set and the sun would give it shade into the cave. So there's
one difference between that story and the Quranic story. And they stayed there for 300. According to
		

			the legend, it says 370 years a little bit more than the Quran. The legend says 370 years, those
seven men remained until finally one of the farmers wanted to use those wells that brick so he
hammered down he used the brick and the seven men a walk and they saw the light coming out. And when
they went, they discovered the city had become Christian because the Emperor was now Christian. Now
what I found very interesting here, that this is one of the earliest in fact it is the earliest
report of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Another early report mentions one tidbit that actually fits
very perfectly with the Koran. And this report is by another early historian, theocracies and he
		

			also died before the coming of Islam. And he mentions when the Seven Sleepers exited This is exactly
from his, from his article or from his translated article, he says that the heresy of the Sadducees
were spreading, and they denied the resurrection. This was found in one of the earliest histories
written at the time, and he says Sadducees was a group at the time of people who denied yom Okayama
as seussian and they denied your McKevitt, they denied resurrection. So he said the heresy of the
Sadducees was spreading, and they denied the Day of Judgment, they denied resurrection. So this
story proved to them that Allah subhana wa tada can resurrect the dead. And this is exactly what the
		

			Quran says. That was added, namely, under the law,
		

			that the Day of Judgment, there is no doubting it. And this in fact, affirms it, even though in the
end of the day, as I said three days ago
		

			We don't know for sure who these seven people were. But if there is a candidate and if there is a
likely story, then the story of the Seven Sleepers of emphasis is the strongest candidate. And in
fact, most of the details match up. And this particular detail I found very interesting that one of
these historians literally says that these Seven Sleepers they called a fitna a theological fitna,
what was that there was a debate can allow, resurrect the dead or not. And these Seven Sleepers,
Allah allowed them to be discovered right at the time when it appeared that the debate would be
lost. And the ones who would win would be those who deny your military ama, and by the seventh
		

			sleepers coming into whole communities seeing that Allah has allowed 300 years to go by and these
people are sleeping there and then a law cause them to die. It was an open miracle. Then they
debated what should be done. One group said, Let us make a monument let us erect a monument to honor
them. And another group said no, let us build a mosque let us build a church or a monastery where
they are and the phrasing on a Latina Umbra him, those who eventually went over there seems to be a
bit of a distaste this should not have happened. And this proves to us the Quranic and the Islamic
and the Hadith point of view, which is we do not build messages on the graves and tombs of righteous
		

			people. This is a clear prohibition in the shady app. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
the worst of people on the Day of Judgment are those who build a Masjid on top of recovery. We do
not mix graveyards and messages they don't occupy the same space. Why? Because this is the easiest
stepping stone to venerating a grave. graveyards are separate messages are separate. We don't build
a Masjid on top of a grave and we don't bury a person inside them as Jim and the Quranic phrasing
here, those who eventually went over and they had the power, they decided to build a Masjid. And of
course, just as a historical tidbit these seven slippers of emphasis, there is a monument that
		

			claims to be theirs. In fact, in 1925
		

			emphasis is now in the country of Turkey. They actually excavated a site which had in Syriac and
inscription here lies the Seven Sleepers and whatnot. And this caused a big deal in the Christian
circles. As for us, as we said, Allahu Allah will be him as Allah says, we don't know for sure
whether that is actually the place or not. Nonetheless, if there is a candidate we said, then the
Seven Sleepers of emphasis is the actual or the one that is the closest other than this, as I said,
and I said this a little bit humorously every culture of the Muslim world. In fact, I checked
online, even some of our Chinese Muslim Brothers, they say the Seven Sleepers were from China, and
		

			they have a place over there, it has the seven slippers. And we have enjoyed in that we have in
Syria and we have here and there, if there is a strong candidate, it is the city of Ephesus, and
this is now in modern Turkey. And there is in fact a shrine in the site to this day where tourists
can go that is this site. Allah knows best and in the end of the day, it doesn't matter to us where
the actual location is, the story is what is important and inshallah tomorrow we will conclude the
story of the Seven Sleepers and then after that move on to other stories I was set on wanting from
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