Al-Kahf

All praise is for Allah, who sent down the Book with no crookedness in it, to warn those who say “Allah has taken a son”. Young men who believed in their Lord take refuge in a cave from their people’s false gods. Allah seals their hearing and they sleep for three hundred years and nine, the sun leaning away from the cave and their dog stretched at the threshold. They wake thinking a day has passed, send one of them to the town with a silver coin, and are found, so people know that Allah’s promise is true. Never say “I will do this tomorrow” without “if Allah wills”. A proud man with two gardens of vines and palms says his wealth will never perish; his friend reminds him to say “As Allah wills”, and the garden is destroyed. This worldly life is like rain on plants that soon dry and scatter; good deeds that last are better. Iblis refuses to bow to Adam. Musa travels to the junction of the two seas, where the fish slips into the water, and meets a servant of Allah given knowledge from Him. He damages a boat, takes the life of a boy and rebuilds a falling wall, and Musa cannot stay silent. Then he explains: a king was seizing every boat, the boy would have burdened his believing parents, and the wall hid two orphans’ treasure. Dhul-Qarnayn travels to where the sun sets and where it rises, and between two mountains builds a barrier of iron and molten copper against Gog and Magog, saying, “This is a mercy from my Lord.” If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, it would run out first. Whoever hopes to meet his Lord, let him do good deeds and worship no one else.