Four Important Stories from Surah_Al_Kahf

1.First Story

" The people of the cave – A Test of Faith"

There was a group few young people who belived in Almighty Allah . It was for their faith they were forced to leave their homes. They left their homes and found a cave to rest in. They felt asleep for approximately 300 years and all they felt was as if they have slept for just a day when they woke up.

               Image Source: Quran.com

 One of their campanions went in search of food. He left the cave and went into the town or village market. The people in the market found him different from the people around. He wanted food in exchange of a coins which were outdated. This was in itself an indication for the people who saw him in the market and for the men of the cave aswell that they slept 300 years approximately without food and water.

 There is no mention of number of men who were in the cave in Holy Qur'aan. However, in Bible (" The seven sleepers of the Ephesus" ) they are believed to be seven in number.

Note: The theme of this historic event  is that, Almighty Allah will Protect those who have belief in his majesty even in toughest of the circumstances.

TOUR TO DACHIGAM

It was the spring of 2022, me as a  member of EUREKA family planned a trip to DACHIGAM NATIONAL PARK. In the group I was accompanied by beautiful hearted Zahoor Ul Islam and compassionate soul Isral Ul Haque.

 In the limited time of 2 hours we visited the Caged Himalyan Black/Brown Bear, Leopard and Royal Kashmiri Stag aka Hangul. In addition to this we visited the fresh trout fish beds. Moreover a large number of birds and plants also came to our notice while switching from East to West of the conserved area. In our trip we were equally happy and saddened by the scenes which flashed across our minds. 

Seeing a conserved are specially for flora and fauna within the highly commercialized area of J&K was worth appreciating and thanks giving, but this at few steps we were saddened seeing the crippled animals in steel wired Meshes.

Ahmad Sirhindi ‎رحمت ‏اللہ ‏علیہ

 al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī (1564–1624) was an Indian Islamic scholar, a Hanafi jurist, and a member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order. He has been described by some followers as a Mujaddid, meaning a “reviver", for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing the newly made religion of Din-i Ilahi and other dissident opinions of Mughal emperor Akbar. [3]:92[4] While early South Asian scholarship credited him for contributing to conservative trends in Indian Islam, more recent works, notably by ter Haar, Friedman, and Buehler, have pointed to Sirhindi's significant contributions to Sufi epistemology and practices.[5].

Most of the Naqshbandī suborders today, such as the Mujaddidī, sirahauzi sandilvi, Khālidī, Saifī, Tāhirī, Qasimiya and Haqqānī sub-orders, trace their spiritual lineage through Sirhindi.

Sirhindi's shrine, known as Rauza Sharif, is located in Sirhind, Punjab, India.

Education of Sirhind رح and his links with Kashmir 

Ahmad Sirhindi was born on 26 May 1564 in the village of Sirhind.^[3]:90 He received most of his early education from his father, 'Abd al-Ahad, his brother, Muhammad Sadiq and from Muhammad Tahir al-Lahuri.^[6] He also memorised the Qur'an. He then studied in Sialkot, which had become an intellectual centre under the Kashmir-born scholar Kamaluddin Kashmiri.^[3]:90 [7] There he learned logic, philosophy and theology and read advanced texts of tafsir and hadith under another scholar from Kashmir, Yaqub Sarfi Kashmiri (1521-1595), who was a sheikh of the tariqa Hamadaniyya Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani Sufi Order. Qazi Bahlol Badakhshani taught him jurisprudence, prophet Muhammad's biography and history.^[8][9]