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Al-Kahf: ٱلْكَهْف al-Kahf: The Cave: 110 (12) Makkah: 69: 69: v. 13-20 [6] A series of parables or allegories on the theme of faith in God versus excessive attachment to the life of this world. Including: [6] The men of the cave. (v. 13–20) [6] The rich man and the poor man. (v. 32–44) [6] Moses and the unnamed sage. (v. 60–82) [6]
The Seven Sleepers (Greek: ἑπτὰ κοιμώμενοι, romanized: hepta koimōmenoi; [2] Latin: Septem dormientes), also known in Christendom as Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, and in Islam as Aṣḥāb al-Kahf (اصحاب الکهف, aṣḥāb al-kahf, lit. Companions of the Cave), [3] is a late antique Christian legend, and a Qur’anic ...
Some argue that the Cave of Seven Sleepers is the location referred to in Surah al-Kahf of the Qur'an. [10] The surah is named after the Cave – al-Kahf – in honor of the alleged piety of the seven sleepers. [11]
According to this view, although Khidr has some common features arising from the mythological personality of Eliyah transferred from Kothar and Hasis, he is in fact a syncretic form of Enoch and Eliyah. Because the Quranic story about Khidr who is mentioned anonymously in the surat al-Kahf, is basically the Enochian version of an Eliyah story. [28]
"The Owner of Two-Horns" [1]) is a leader who appears in the Qur'an, Surah al-Kahf (18), Ayahs 83–101, as one who travels to the east and west and sets up a barrier between a certain people and Gog and Magog (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūj wa-Maʾjūj). [2]
Al-Kahf (Arabic: الكهف, lit. 'the Cave') is the 18th chapter ( sūrah ) of the Qur'an with 110 verses ( āyāt ). Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation ( asbāb al-nuzūl ), it is an earlier Meccan surah , which means it was revealed before Muhammad's hijrah to Medina, instead of after.
This is the seventh and last chapter starting with the Muqattaʿat letters Hāʼ Mīm. Regarding the timing and contextual background of the believed revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is one of the late Meccan chapters, except for verse 10 and possibly a few others which Muslims believe were revealed in Medina.
Chapter 19 is the only surah in the Qur'an that is named after a woman, initially known as KA-HA. Mary, the figure from whom this Surah takes its name. Jesus is referred to by his familial connection to her in Q19:34 , the identifying title 'son of Mary' places startling emphasis on Mary's motherhood in a culture in which individuals were ...