Surah Al-Kahf

Ta'awwudh · Seeking Refuge

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ

A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytani ar-rajim. I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the accursed.

The Name · Bismillah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

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The Surah · In Three Parts

One hundred and ten verses, read in three sittings. Al-Kahf runs four accounts, and each one is a different kind of pressure. Young men who lose their safety for their faith. A man who loses his head over his own property. A prophet who is taught that his knowledge has an edge. And a king with more power than anyone, who keeps building anyway and calls it mercy from his Lord. Faith, wealth, knowledge and power, one after another, with the antidote to each placed beside it. Al-Hakim and al-Bayhaqi record from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri that whoever recites this surah on Friday will have light shining for him between the two Fridays, and Muslim records from Abu Darda that whoever memorizes ten verses from its beginning is protected from the Dajjal.

Part One

Verses 1 to 31

We Bound Their Hearts When They Stood.

A Book with no crookedness in it, the earth described as an adornment laid down for a test, young men who walked away from everything, three hundred years of sleep, and the instruction to hold yourself with the people who call on their Lord morning and evening.

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Prepared with discipline · Ameen

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