I have been seeing these lessons from surah Kahf pop up more and more on my fb page. Now while the story itself is questionable apparently there are a lot of morals people seem to be deriving from this story, such as:
Friday Surah Kahf Reflection:
Surah Al-Kahf is one of the Makkan Surahs and that is why one of its themes is Tawheed. Every aspect of this Surah teaches us a different aspect of Tawheed.
The Surah begins with Alhamdulillah, then warns those who believe Allah has a child about he dangers of their Shirk, then shows how Allah takes care of the believers in the story of the people of the cave, then shows how Allah deals with ungrateful servants in the story of the two man and the garden.
The Surah then reminds us of the creation of Adam and how Shaytaan tries to lead people into Shirk and the consequence of that, then moves on to the story of Musa and Khidr which teaches us about the Wisdom and Qadar of Allah, and finally the story of Dhul Qarnayn which shows us among many other things Allah's power to hide an entire nation (Gog and Magog) from mankind until the time comes for them to be unleashed.
It is clear also from the fact that Surah Kahf begins with Alhamdulillah (All Praise is for Allah Alone) and ends with "and so whoever wishes to meet their Lord should do good deeds and avoid associating anyone as a partner to Allah,"
Friday Surah Kahf Reflection:
"Definitely, I have made whatever is on this earth beautiful to test which of you are best in Deeds, and definitely I will make whatever is on it dry bare soil," (Surah Kahf 18:7-8)
A theme which runs throughout Surah Kahf is that the good things in this world were created to test us.
If we look around the Muslim world today, so many of us are failing this test. How many Muslims have attained worldly success and it has distracted them from Allah?
We become so caught up in our wealth, earning it, spending it then wasting our lives in all the luxuries we purchased that we forget why we exist.
Have we forgotten that the beautiful things in this world exist to test us? Have we forgotten that one day it will all become dry bare soil and disappear and only our deeds will remain? Have we prepared anything for that day?
May Allah assist us all in passing the tests of life."
I don't want to bore you with all of them, but what really bothers me here is creating and living with this unhealthy mentality that this life is nothing but a test, everything has to be done for allah.
I personally never believed in this world being black and white, right and wrong, but all sorts of colors exist.
Now I wonder, the people deriving these tafseers, what is going through their mind? On the one hand everyone, even them want to enjoy their life and trust me most do, but then they preach things like this. Its a hypocrisy on so many different levels.
Now the classic phrase, don't look at the muslims, look at Islam. So looking at the above preachings of fairytales and ridiculously impossible ideologies what exactly is suppose to be so appealing here? Is it suppose to appeal to me that an all merciful god created me, knowing exactly what is going to happen to me, and then flung me on earth, instilled in me human desires, and created all these temptations just so I can live my life strongly resisting all these beautiful things to please a narcissistic god so I could go to a heaven that has all these same things I had to resist on earth. So wait if these beautiful things are SO evil for me on this earth what makes them ok in Heaven?
I have noticed a trend in that how according to muslim preaches like above, every single little thing in this life is a test you either pass or fail. That alone can have a huge psychological effect on people. What happens if you feel you failing a test from god? That would make a person feel weak and insignificant, that could push someone to feel not good enough in the eyes on god and then effect their self worth. It's a lot of pressure on someone to treat their entire life as a test. I really wish people like this could wake up and realise what they are saying.
In anycase all I can say right now, with great certainty is, FUCK THIS SHIT
I just want to live
That's a good one lol:) you must believe to what people say in the Middle East-they say when you recite Surah Bakarah in the night of Ramadan they you will go straight up Heaven
and then you can imagine how small Surah Bakarah is for a life time
Topic: Surah Kahf (The Cave)