PEOPLE OF THE CAVE

PEOPLE OF THE CAVE
ALLAH (S.W.T.) describes the youths of the cave who remained asleep in the cave for three hundred years.
“And you would have thought them awake while they were asleep and We turned them on their right and on their left sides” (Q 18:18).
Fourteen centuries have passsedsince the condition of the people of the cave was revealed in the holy Qur’an, it is only in this generation of our’s that a jordian archeologist Rafiq wafa Ad-dajani discovered in 1963 at a region in jordan known as Rahib, the place were the people of the cave slept in, when they fled in order to salvage   their lives, their religion and their faith in Allah from the oppression of King Deconus. Eight graves were found in the cave and this is the number that Allah (s.w.t) has mentioned in the Qur’an. Near the entrance of the cave, there was a skull of a dog, this dog was their guard.
The number of the people of the cave was seven, among them was a Shepard.  The dog was counted their eight, the dog was buried at the entrance of the cave where he had been serving as a guard and it was not buried in the eight graves.
The apertures of the cave was studied especially, the place through which the sun entered the cave, it was discovered that the direction of its sourthern aperture southwest. If a person stood inside the cave in the morning, the the sun inclined away from the cave to the right and the sun rays passed in it’s strenght in front of the standing person revealing the pastures and the horizons. When the sun was at its Zenith, none of its rays would penetrate through the aperture of the cave.
The describtion that the, discover made of the cave is the same precise describtion mentioned in the Noblr Qur’an.
Allah says:
“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 (one) of the ayat of Allah.He whom Allah guides is mightly guided, but he whom He sends astray, for him you will find no wali (guiding friend) to lead him.”  (Q: 18:17)
Writtings in different ancient languages were found one the walls of the cave indicating the Oneness of Allah.
May Allah guide us right   Ameen.

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