Verse: 9 Signs from Allah Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder?
Verse: 10 Focused Youth [Mention] when the youths retreated to the cave and said, "Our Lord, grant us from Yourself mercy and prepare for us from our affair right guidance."
Hand in Hand
Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet ﷺ , “ There are seven whom Allah will shade on a day when there is no shade but his. They are a just ruler, a youth who grew up in the worship of Allah, one whose heart is attached to the mosques, two who love each other, meet each other, and depart from each other for the sake of Allah, a man who is tempted by a beautiful woman of high status but he rejects her, saying , ‘I fear Allah,’ one spends in charity and conceals it such that his right hand does not know what his left hand has given, and one who remembered Allah in private and he wept. ” ( Ṣaḥīh ̣ al-Bukhāri ̄ 629, Ṣaḥīh ̣ Muslim 1031)
Ibn Abbas reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “ Take advantage of five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your illness, your riches before your poverty, your free time before your work, and your life before your death. ” ( Shu’ab al-Imān 9575)
Ibn Mas’ud reported: The Prophet, ﷺ said, “ The son of Adam will not be dismissed from his Lord on the Day of Resurrection until he is questioned about five issues: his life and how he lived it, his youth and how he used it, his wealth and how he earned it and he spent it, and how he acted on his knowledge. ” ( Sunan al- Tirmidhi ̄ 2416)
Potential of Youth
Verse: 11 Allah’s help when on right path So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years .
Verse: 12 Criterion for Akhirah success Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time.
Verse: 13 Guidance: Ilm Nafee + Amal Saleh It is We who relate to you, [O Muhammad], their story in truth. Indeed, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.
Allah is the ally of those who believe. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve - their allies are Taghut . They take them out of the light into darknesses . Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein. (Al Baqarah:257)
Verse: 14 Firm & Steadfast And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.
ربطنا: Knot on heart
How to Achieve & Increase Eman
Verse: 15 Importance of authentic reference These, our people, have taken besides Him deities. Why do they not bring for [worship of] them a clear authority? And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie?"
Lies against Allah Self definition of halal or haram Personal interpretation of verses of Quran Explanation of Attributes of Allah without authentic reference Fabricated hadith
Verse: 16 Mercy in cave [The youths said to one another], "And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allah, retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility."