Salsaabil 45 Poem@sakisabr Poem by SAKISABRE Saki

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The Story of the Sleepers!

The first story in Sura Kahf talks about several young men who were being persecuted and sought shelter in a cave!
A tyrannical king was persecuting any and all who did not worship the idols like he did!
Several young men in a town, possibly called Ephesus as the Christians call it, did not and would not do as the king commanded for they believed whole heartedly in Allah and feared no one other than Allah!
These young men asked Allah to solve their unique problem with a solution wholly unto them and their situation!
'Rabbana atina milladunka rahmatan wahayyi’ lana min amrina rashada'
Our Lord! bestow on us Mercy from Thyself, and dispose of our affair for us in the right way! [18: 10]
These young men were captured by this king for not accepting the king’s beliefs!
The king, who would have killed them, did not because he had to go to another place for a while!
The king told these men that he was giving them a respite until he came back and would expect them to agree to worship the way he worshiped instead of Allah!
The young men were inspired to go to the cave and stay there and worship Allah the only way they knew how!
When the king came back, the boys knew that they would be persecuted and severely began to fear what the king would do to them until one of the young men reminded them to have faith in Allah!
And so they collectively kept their faith strong and left their destinies in Allah’s hands!
Allah, in all His mercy and knowledge, led the king to the cave where he found the men sleeping inside the cave!
So the king had the cave’s mouth walled up!
Before it could be walled up completely, a person of that time wrote the men’s story on
2 stone tablets and buried the tablets under the wall so that if it ever came down, someone would find the tablet and read of how the men came to be in the cave and died there!
By Allah’s mercy,300 plus 9 years (to account for lunar time) , a shepherd was inspired to find the cave and take down the wall!
The king at that time was a believer who was praying for Allah to show his people that resurrection will occur because the people stopped believing in it!
The king and many people went to the cave and there they found the young men who were awakened by Allah’s mercy!
They thought they had only slept for a few hours or a day because in their eyes nothing had changed!
They were still young men!
The king told them the reality of what the date was!
The young men told their story of being persecuted and how they had come to the cave to be safe!
The young men asked the king that they not be revered as saints or gods!
The king agreed, covered the cave and had a simple masjid built above the cave!
The young men were then taken back by Allah!
Allah used these young men to teach the people that resurrection can happen and thereby enforcing the fact that it will happen!
This story has several very important lessons for us that we must use for our daily lives!
No one can change the word of Allah as stated in the first verse and there is no crookedness in the Qur'an.
Allah gives us permission to use the old stories from the people of the book before
Islam for historical purposes with the knowledge that it may not be truth but it does hold some facts that we can use to help us understand better the situation at hand!
The importance of making a specific dua (supplication) :
The young men did not ask for a general dua but a specific dua and Allah answered their dua.
The answer to a dua may not be what you expect!
Only Allah has the answers to why He answers a dua for us in a specific way!
In this case, instead of killing the king or taking the boys to a safer town, they were put to sleep for many years!
Now those boys are a guiding force and shining example to ALL Muslims after their generation;
They were respected and honored both by Allah and all Muslims in the past and for all time to come!
The important fact that where your iman(belief) is safe, you will feel safe, even if it be in a small cave!
If your iman does not feel safe then you will constantly be afraid for yourself and that leaves even less room to build on your iman!
When you feel safe, you are more able to enhance your iman and your faith becomes stronger!
The importance of having good friends and good company; one reinforces the other when faith starts to lag; one prods the other to want to learn more; etc.
Say Inshallah whenever embarking on an endeavor or making a promise to do something in the future!
In shaa Allahu - If Allâh will! [18: 69]

(Collected)

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The Story of three men!
Once three men were going somewhere
Suddenly it began to rain
Finding no shelter they entered a big mountain cave
It was raining hard and a big stone fell on the cave
The mouth of the cave got shut
Being captivated the three men consulted each other to get out
They decided to offer their best deeds to the creator to get out
The First one said, 'I had very old parents side by side very young children
I used to tend animals all day long and got back home at the evening getting home i found my parents as sleep
I milked the animals and took the milk to the parents and waited till they get up
My young children cried but i gave preference of my old parents'
If my deeds were good then, My Lord! save us, remove the stone so that we can see the sky
The stone moved so far that they could see the the sky
The second said, 'I had a cousin, I loved her very much
One day i proposed her to surrender her all to me
She agreed in condition of 100 dinner
I procured the amount with hardship
The day came and I went with the money
I sat in the middle of her two legs
Suddenly she cried to fear the creator, and not to spoil her chastity
I stopped the work and left the place'
If it was a good deed, then save us My Lord
Move the stone
The stone moved little
The third man said, 'I appointed a day labor
He worked all day long but didn't take the wage everyday
In this way a huge wage stood to be paid
I also got huge crops n few cows by him
One day the Labor came and asked for justice
I gave him all the cows with the shepherd too'
If it was a god deed, then My Lord! save us and remove the stone
We want to get free
The stone moved away and the three men came out of the cave
They praised the Creator saying that good deeds are valued here and hereafter!

(Collected)

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The Sun Is Over Our Head!
Always jolly like a child pushing a trolley
Perfect without an iota of folly
Would I not want you to be here forever really?
Birds have begun to chirp
Night is over
Flowers are blooming
Cowboys are freeing cows from the shed
Studious person is about to study table!
The sun is peeping behind the hill
Scene has changed: : :
Studious persons get up at 12 o'clock!
Cows are fed in the shed!
The sun is on the head of the hillock!
The moon beam is on the Wall!
Mechanized era!


edited may 2015