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Tafsir — Al-Kahf

Tafsir Ibn Kathir · English

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• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:1

  What has been mentioned about the Virtues of this Surah and the first and last ten Ayat Imam Ahmad recorded that Al-Bara' said: "A man recited Al-Kahf and there was an animal in the house which began

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:6

  Perhaps, you would kill yourself in grief, over their footsteps, because they believe not in this narration (6)Verily, we have made that which is on earth an adornment for it, in order that We may tes

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:9

  Do you think that the people of Al-Kahf and Ar-Raqim were a wonder among Our signs (9)When the young men fled for refuge to Al-Kahf. They said: "Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Yourself, and facilit

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:13

  We narrate unto you their story with truth: Truly, they were young men who believed in their Lord (Allah), and We increased them in guidance (13)And We made their hearts firm and strong when they stoo

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:17

  And you might have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the midst of the cave. That is from the Ay

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:18

  And you would have thought them awake, whereas they were asleep. And We turned them on their right and on their left sides, and their dog stretching forth his two forelegs at the Wasid. Had you happen

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:19

  Likewise, We woke them that they might question one another. A speaker among them said: "How long have you stayed (here)?" They said: "We have stayed a day or part of a day." They said: "Your Lord kno

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:21

  And thus We made their case known, that they might know that the promise of Allah is true, and that there can be no doubt about the Hour. (Remember) when they (the people) disputed among themselves ab

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:22

  They say they were three, the dog being the fourth among them; and they say they were five, the dog being the sixth, guessing at the unseen; and they say they were seven, and the dog being the eighth.

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:23

  And never say of anything, "I shall do such and such thing tomorrow. (23)Except (with the saying), "If Allah wills!" And remember your Lord when you forget and say: "It may be that my Lord guides me t

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:25

  And they stayed in their cave three hundred years, adding nine (25)Say: "Allah knows best how long they stayed. With Him is the unseen of the heavens and the earth." How clearly He sees, and hears (ev

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:27

  And recite what has been revealed to you (O Muhammad) of your Lord's Book. None can change His Words, and none will you find as refuge other than Him (27)And keep yourself (O Muhammad) patiently with

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:29

  And say: "The truth is from your Lord." Then whosoever wills, let him believe; and whosoever wills, let him disbelieve. Verily, We have prepared for the wrongdoers, a Fire whose walls will be surround

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:30

  Verily, as for those who believed and did righteous deeds, certainly We shall not make the reward of anyone to be lost who does his (righteous) deeds in the most perfect manner (30)These! For them wil

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:32

  And put forward to them the example of two men: unto one of them We had given two gardens of grapes, and We had surrounded both with date palms; and had put between them green crops (cultivated fields

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:37

  His companion said to him during his discussion: "Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you out of dust, then out of Nutfah, then fashioned you into a man? (37)"But as for my part, (I believe) that He

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:42

  So his fruits were encircled (with ruin). And began Yuqallibu his hands over what he had spent upon it, while it was all destroyed on its trellises, and he could only say: "Would that I had ascribed n

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:45

  And mention the parable of the worldly life: it is like the water which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it, and becomes fresh and green. But (later) it becomes

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:47

  And (remember) the Day We shall cause the mountains to pass away, and you will see the earth as a levelled plain, and We shall gather them so that We will leave not one of them behind (47)And they wil

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir — 18:50

  And (remember) when We said to the angels: "Prostrate yourselves unto Adam." So they prostrated themselves, except Iblis. He was one of the Jinn; he disobeyed the command of his Lord. Will you then ta

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