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The Opening, the Opening of the Divine Writ, The Essence of the Divine Writ, The Surah of Praise, The Foundation of the Qur'an, and The Seven Oft-Repeated [Verses] [6] 7 (1) Makkah: 5: 48: Whole Surah [6] The fundamental principles of the Qur'an in a condensed form. [6] It reads: “(1) In the name of God (Allah), the Compassionate and Merciful ...
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.
Recitation of al-Kahf, verses 83-101 The verses of the chapter reproduced below show Dhu al-Qarnayn traveling first to the Western limit of travel where he sees the sun set in a muddy spring, then to the furthest East where he sees it rise from the ocean, and finally northward to a place in the mountains where he finds a people oppressed by Gog ...
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 ...
The Qissat depicts the travels of Alexander whom it identifies with the figure named Dhu al-Qarnayn ("The Two Horned One") in Surah al-Kahf of the Quran, referred to as Dhulqarnayn in the text (in Arabic-language Alexander traditions, Alexander was variously called "Dhu l-Qarnayn", "al-Iskandar Dhūl-qarnayn", or sometimes just "Dhūlqarnayn" [4]).
The Quran, [c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ().It is organized in 114 chapters (surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses ().
Aṣḥāb al-Kahf war-Raqīm (Arabic: أَصْحَاب ٱلْكَهْف وَٱلرَّقِيْم, Companions of the Cave and Al-Raqaim? or Petra? [79] (18:9–22) [15] Companions of the Elephant [24] People of al-Ukhdūd; People of a township in Surah Ya-Sin [61] People of Yathrib [32] or Medina [73] [80]
The word surah was used at the time of Muhammad as a term with the meaning of a portion or a set of verses of the Qur'an. This is evidenced by the appearance of the word surah in multiple locations in the Quran such as verse : "a sûrah which We have revealed and made ˹its rulings˺ obligatory, and revealed in it clear commandments so that you may be mindful."