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Virtues of reciting Surah al-Kahf on Friday
There are sahih ahadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) concerning the virtues of reciting Surah al-Kahf during the day or night of Jumu’ah (Friday). These include:
[1] From Abu Sa’id al-Khudri, who said: “Whoever reads Surat al-Kahf on the night of Jumu’ah, will have a light that will stretch between him and the Ka’bah.” (Narrated by al-Darimi, 3407. This hadith was classed as sahih by Shaykh al-Albani in Sahih al-Jami’, 6471)
[2] Another hadith narrates: “Whoever reads Surat al-Kahf on the day of Jumu’ah, will have a light that will shine from him from one Friday to the next.” (Narrated by al-Hakim, 2/399; al-Bayhaqi, 3/249)
[3] Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever reads Surat al-Kahf on the day of Jumu’ah, a light will shine for him from beneath his feet to the clouds of the sky, which will shine for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will be forgiven (his sins) between the two Fridays.’”
When to read Surat al-Kahf on Friday?
Surat al-Kahf may be read during the night or on the day of Jumu’ah. The night of Jumu’ah starts from sunset on Thursday, and the day of Jumu’ah ends at sunset. Therefore the time for reading this surah extends from sunset on Thursday to sunset on Friday.
Imām Bukhāri and Imām Muslim have recorded from al-Barā’, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: “A man read sūrah al-Kahf, and in the house was a steed which began to shy; so he [the man] looked and there was a fog or cloud which had enveloped him. He mentioned that to the Prophet ﷺ (who) said: Recite O so-and-so, for it was tranquillity descending because of the Qur’ān.
Surah al Kahf as protection from the Dajjal
A ḥadīth about preserving (ḥifẓ) ten verses from the beginning of sūrah al-Kahf is ṣahīh, Imam Muslim has extracted it in his ṣahīh [his compilation of authenticated narrations] from Abu al-Dardā’, may Allah be pleased with him, from the Prophet ﷺ [who] said: “Whosoever preserves ten verses from the beginning of sūrah al-Kahf is protected from the the trial of al-Dajjāl”.
ولمزيد من الحماية الروحية، يقرأ المسلمون هذه السورة كدرع ضد الدجال، الذي تنبأ ظهوره في نهاية الزمان. إن تلاوة سورة الكهف لا تمنح النور الإلهي فحسب، بل هي أيضًا بمثابة وسيلة للاستعاذة من التجارب والمحن الوشيكة.
Virtues of reciting Surah al-Kahf on Friday
There are sahih ahadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) concerning the virtues of reciting Surah al-Kahf during the day or night of Jumu’ah (Friday). These include:
[1] From Abu Sa’id al-Khudri, who said: “Whoever reads Surat al-Kahf on the night of Jumu’ah, will have a light that will stretch between him and the Ka’bah.” (Narrated by al-Darimi, 3407. This hadith was classed as sahih by Shaykh al-Albani in Sahih al-Jami’, 6471)
[2] Another hadith narrates: “Whoever reads Surat al-Kahf on the day of Jumu’ah, will have a light that will shine from him from one Friday to the next.” (Narrated by al-Hakim, 2/399; al-Bayhaqi, 3/249)
[3] Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever reads Surat al-Kahf on the day of Jumu’ah, a light will shine for him from beneath his feet to the clouds of the sky, which will shine for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will be forgiven (his sins) between the two Fridays.’”
When to read Surat al-Kahf on Friday?
Surat al-Kahf may be read during the night or on the day of Jumu’ah. The night of Jumu’ah starts from sunset on Thursday, and the day of Jumu’ah ends at sunset. Therefore the time for reading this surah extends from sunset on Thursday to sunset on Friday.
Imām Bukhāri and Imām Muslim have recorded from al-Barā’, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: “A man read sūrah al-Kahf, and in the house was a steed which began to shy; so he [the man] looked and there was a fog or cloud which had enveloped him. He mentioned that to the Prophet ﷺ (who) said: Recite O so-and-so, for it was tranquillity descending because of the Qur’ān.
Surah al Kahf as protection from the Dajjal
A ḥadīth about preserving (ḥifẓ) ten verses from the beginning of sūrah al-Kahf is ṣahīh, Imam Muslim has extracted it in his ṣahīh [his compilation of authenticated narrations] from Abu al-Dardā’, may Allah be pleased with him, from the Prophet ﷺ [who] said: “Whosoever preserves ten verses from the beginning of sūrah al-Kahf is protected from the the trial of al-Dajjāl”.
ولمزيد من الحماية الروحية، يقرأ المسلمون هذه السورة كدرع ضد الدجال، الذي تنبأ ظهوره في نهاية الزمان. إن تلاوة سورة الكهف لا تمنح النور الإلهي فحسب، بل هي أيضًا بمثابة وسيلة للاستعاذة من التجارب والمحن الوشيكة.
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00:00In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
00:04All praise is due to Allah, Who has sent down to His servant the Book, and has not made any crookedness in it,
00:15a record, that He may warn of a severe punishment from Him, and give good news to the believers who do righteous deeds, that they will have a good reward,
00:31abiding therein forever. And He warns those who say, Allah has taken a son.
00:41They have no knowledge of it, nor do their forefathers. It is as if a word were to come out of their mouths. They say nothing but a lie.
00:59So perhaps you will cause yourself to weep over their traces, if they do not believe in this Hadith. Alas!
01:12Verily, We have made that which is on the earth an adornment for it, that We may test them as to which of them is best in deed.
01:23And verily, We have made that which is on it a barren hill.
01:30Or did you think that the dwellers of the cave and the rock were of Our signs in wonder?
01:40When the young men took refuge in the cave, they said, Our Lord! Give us mercy from Yourself, and make easy for us the right course of our affair.
01:54So We struck their ears in the cave for a number of years.
02:03Then We raised them up, that We might know which of the two parties was the best in terms of how long they remained therein.
02:14We tell you their story in truth. Verily, they were young men who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.
02:28And We straitened their hearts when they stood up, and they said, Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth.
02:37We shall not call upon any god other than Him. We said, then, in a loud voice,
02:50These are a people who have taken gods besides Him. If they had not come to them with a clear authority, then who is more unjust than he who invents a lie against Allah?
03:13And when you have left them and they worship none but Allah, then go to the cave.
03:21Your Lord will spread for you His mercy, and He will make easy for you the right course of your affair.
03:32And you will see the sun, when it rises, moving away from their cave to the right, and when it goes out, it brings them nearer to the left, and they are in a distance from it.
03:48That is one of the Signs of Allah. Whomsoever Allah guides, he is the guided one, and whosoever He leaves astray, you will not find for him a right-guiding friend.
04:04And you will think that they are awake, while they are asleep.
04:10And We will turn them to the right and to the left, and their dog will be spread out, its arms in the middle.
04:21If you had looked upon them, you would have turned away from them in flight, and you would have been filled with fear of them.
04:30And thus did We raise them up, that they might ask one another.
04:38A speaker among them will say, How long have you stayed?
04:44They will say, We stayed a day, or a part of a day.
04:50They will say, Your Lord knows best how long you have stayed.
04:54So send one of you with this letter of yours to Madinah, and let him see which of them is purer in food, and let him bring you provision from him, and let him be kind to you, and let him not make you aware of anyone.
05:20Verily, if they come out against you, they will stone you, or make you return to their religion, and you will never be successful in that case.
05:34And thus did We raise them up, that they might know that the promise of Allah is true, and that the Hour is in it no doubt, when they dispute among themselves their affair.
05:52So they said, Build for them a building, their Lord knows best about them.
05:59Those who were victorious over them said, We will surely build for them a mosque.
06:09They will say, Three, the fourth of them is their dog, and they will say, Five, the sixth of them is their dog, a stone in the unseen, and they will say, Seven, and the eighth of them is their dog.
06:27Say, My Lord knows best in their number what they know, except a little.
06:38So do not discourage them, except in plain sight, and do not inquire about them from any of them.
06:51And say not a thing, I will do that tomorrow, except that Allah wills.
07:08And remember your Lord when you forget, and say, It may be that my Lord will guide me to a nearer way than this.
07:20And they stayed in their cave three hundred years, and increased nine.
07:29Say, Allah knows best what they have left for Him, the unseen of the heavens and the earth.
07:36See with it and hear. They have no protector besides Him, nor does He associate anyone with Him in His judgment.
07:51And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord. There is no one to change His Words, and you will not find besides Him any refuge.
08:06And be patient with yourself with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and in the evening, seeking His Countenance.
08:17And let not your eyes deviate from them, seeking the adornment of the worldly life.
08:25And obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our Reminder, and whose desire has followed, and whose affair is ever in disorder.
08:36And say, The truth is from your Lord. So whoever wills, let him believe, and whoever wills, let him disbelieve.
08:51Verily, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire, which will envelop them, and if they seek to escape, they will be added to it with water like molten copper, which will burn their faces.
09:11Evil is the drink, and evil is the reward.
09:17Verily, as for those who believe and do righteous deeds, We do not waste the reward of one who does a good deed.
09:28Those will have Gardens of Eternity beneath which rivers flow, in which they will be adorned with bracelets of gold,
09:43and they will be dressed in green garments of silk and brocade, reclining therein on couches.
10:02Excellent is the reward, and good is the reward in abundance.
10:08And set forth for them the parable of two men. We made for their wives two gardens of grapes,
10:17and We made them light with date-palms, and We made between them a field.
10:25Each of the two gardens gave its fruits, and they did not wrong any of it, and We made a river flow between them.
10:38And he had a fruit, and he said to his companion, while he was speaking to him,
10:46I am greater than you in wealth, and mightier in number.
10:53And he entered his garden, and he was unjust to himself. He said, I do not think that this will ever perish.
11:07And I do not think that the Hour will ever come to pass. And if I should be returned to my Lord,
11:17I will surely find therein a better return.
11:24His companion said to him, while he was speaking to him,
11:29Do you disbelieve in the One Who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then proportioned you to be a man?
11:41But He is Allah, my Lord, and I associate no one with my Lord.
11:52And why did you not, when you entered your garden, say, Allah wills, there is no power except with Allah.
12:05If you see that I am less than you in wealth and children,
12:12then it is possible that my Lord will give me something better than your garden,
12:21and He will send upon it a thunderbolt from the sky, and it will become a rising cloud.
12:32Or its water will become deep, and you will not be able to ask for it.
12:42And its fruit will be enveloped, and it will turn its hands over what it has spent in it,
12:51while it is lying on its throne, and it will say, O I wish I had not associated anyone with my Lord.
13:02And he had no party to help him other than Allah, and he was not able to help.
13:14Therein is loyalty to Allah, the Truth. He is the best reward, and the best reward.
13:26And set forth for them the example of the life of this world, like water which We have sent down from the sky,
13:36and the plant of the earth mixes with it, and it becomes a thing which the winds blow away.
13:45And Allah is Powerful over all things.
13:52Wealth and children are the adornment of the life of this world,
13:57and the good things that remain are better in the sight of your Lord as a reward, and better as a hope.
14:06And on the Day when We will move the mountains and you will see the earth standing out,
14:12and We will gather them together, and We will not leave any of them,
14:18and they will be lined up before your Lord,
14:21saying, You have come to Us as We created you the first time,
14:27but you claimed that We would not make for you a time of promise.
14:33And the Book will be placed, and the criminals will be afraid of what is in it,
14:41and they will say, O woe to us! What is this Book? It leaves not a small or a great thing,
14:50except that He has counted it, and they will find that which they did is present,
14:58and your Lord does not wrong anyone.
15:03And when We said to the angels,
15:07Submit to Adam, but they submitted except Iblis.
15:13He was of the jinn, but he disobeyed the commandment of his Lord.
15:18Will you then take him and his offspring as allies instead of Me, while they are to you an enemy?
15:30Evil indeed is the place for the wrongdoers.
15:34I did not make them witness the creation of the heavens and the earth,
15:40nor the creation of themselves, nor did I take as My servants those who mislead.
15:49And on the Day when He will say, Call the partners of Mine whom you claimed,
15:57and they will call upon them, but they will not respond to them, and We will place a barrier between them.
16:05And the criminals will see the Fire, and they will think that they are about to fall into it,
16:16and they will not find any escape from it.
16:20And indeed We have expounded in this Qur'an for mankind every kind of parable.
16:28And man is ever the most of things, a saviour to us.
16:35And what prevented mankind from believing when guidance came to them,
16:45and they asked forgiveness of their Lord, except that the way of the ancients should come to them,
17:03or that the punishment should come to them in full.
17:07And We send not the Messengers, but as bearers of good tidings and warners.
17:15And those who disbelieve dispute about falsehood, that they may take away the truth therewith,
17:21and they take My Ayat and that which they are warned of, in mockery.
17:29And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the Ayat of his Lord,
17:36but draws nearer to them, and forgets that which his hands have sent forth?
17:41Verily, We have placed a barrier over their hearts, lest they understand it, and in their ears is deafness.
17:54And if you call them to guidance, then they will never be guided.
18:04And your Lord is Oft-Forgiving, Possessor of Mercy.
18:07If He should take them for what they have earned, He would have hastened for them the punishment.
18:14Nay, for them there is a promise, which they will not find other than it.
18:22And those are the towns which We destroyed when they did wrong, and We made a time for their destruction.
18:34And when Musa said to his servant, I will not leave until I reach the junction of the two seas, or pass through the fields.
18:48So when they reached the junction between them, they forgot their boat,
18:55and he took his way in the sea, sailing.
19:00And when they had passed, he said to his servant, Bring us our breakfast.
19:09We have indeed met this morning from our journey.
19:15He said, Did you see when we turned to the rock, and I forgot the boat, and none made me forget it except the Satan, that I should remember him.
19:31And he took his way in the sea, wondering.
19:35He said, That is what we were seeking.
19:41So they turned back to their footprints, telling stories.
19:48And they found a servant of Our servants whom We gave as a mercy from Us, and We taught him knowledge from Ourself.
20:04Musa said to him, Shall I follow you, so that you may teach me from what you have been taught, the right way?
20:15He said, You will not be able with me to be patient.
20:22And how can you be patient on that which you have no knowledge of?
20:28He said, You will find me, if Allah wills, patient, and I will not disobey you in any matter.
20:42He said, If you follow me, do not ask me for anything, until I give you a reminder of it.
20:56So they set off, until, when they boarded the ship, it sank.
21:05He said, Did you sink it, so that you may drown its people? You have done a terrible thing.
21:13He said, Did I not say, You will not be able with me to be patient?
21:21He said, Do not hold me to account for what I have forgotten, and do not make my affair difficult for me.
21:29So they set off, until, when they met a boy, he killed him.
21:37He said, Did you kill a pure soul without a soul? You have done a terrible thing.
21:48He said, Did I not say to you, You will not be able with me to be patient?
21:56He said, If I ask you for anything after this, do not hold me to account, for you have reached an excuse from me.
22:11So they set off, until, when they came to the people of a town, they asked for food for their people,
22:23but they refused to host them, so they found in it a wall that wanted to collapse, so he built it.
22:35He said, If you had willed, you would have taken a reward for it.
22:41He said, This is the separation between me and you. I will tell you the meaning of what you were not able to bear patiently.
22:53As for the ship, it was with poor people working in the sea, so I intended to spoil it,
23:02and there was behind them a king who seized every ship by force.
23:12And as for the boy, his parents were believers, so We feared that he might incite them to transgression and disbelief.
23:25So We intended that their Lord should give them a better charity than him, and a nearer mercy.
23:38And as for the wall, it was for two orphans in the city, and beneath it was a treasure for them, and their father was righteous.
23:52So your Lord intended that they should reach maturity, and that He should extract their treasure as a mercy from your Lord.
24:13And I did not do it out of My Command. That is the interpretation of what you were not able to bear patiently.
24:23And they ask you about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, I will recite to you from him a Reminder.
24:32Verily, We established him in the land, and We gave him of all things a means,
24:43and he followed a means,
24:46until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a boiling spring,
24:55and he found with it a people.
24:59We said, O Dhul-Qarnayn, either you will be punished, or you will take in them a good reward.
25:14He said, As for him who does wrong, We will punish him, then he will be returned to his Lord, and He will punish him with a terrible punishment.
25:29And as for him who believes and does good, he will have a goodly reward,
25:39and We will speak to him of Our easy affair.
25:44Then he followed a means,
25:48until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it rising on a people
25:57whom We had not made a cover for them.
26:02Thus it was, and We had surrounded him with what he had of knowledge.
26:08Then he followed a means,
26:12until, when he reached between the two mountains,
26:18he found besides them a people who could hardly understand a word.
26:25They said, O Dhul-Qarnayn, indeed Gog and Magog are corrupting in the land,
26:33so shall we make for you a way out, so that you may make a barrier between us and them?
26:43He said, That wherein my Lord has established me is better,
26:48so help me with strength that I may make a barrier between you and them.
26:55Give me pieces of iron,
26:58until, when it is equal between the two sides,
27:04he says, Blow,
27:07until, when he has made it into a fire,
27:13he says, Give it to me,
27:16I will pour over it clay.
27:19But they could not remove it,
27:23and they could not make a cover for it.
27:27He said, This is a mercy from my Lord,
27:31but when the promise of my Lord comes,
27:35He makes it a barrier.
27:40And the promise of my Lord was true.
27:44And on that Day We shall leave some of them to waver among themselves,
27:51and the Horn shall be blown, and We shall gather them together.
27:56And We shall present Hell, that Day, to the disbelievers, as a present.
28:05Those whose eyes were covered from My Remembrance,
28:13and they could not hear.
28:18Do those who disbelieve think that they can take My slaves as allies besides Me?
28:31Verily, We have prepared Hell for the disbelievers as a place of descent.
28:40Say, Shall We inform you of the greatest losers?
28:47Those whose efforts have gone astray in the worldly life,
28:52while they think that they are doing good works.
28:58Those who disbelieve in the Signs of their Lord and His Meeting,
29:08and their deeds have gone astray,
29:11so We shall not give them a weight on the Day of Resurrection.
29:16That is their recompense, Hell, because they disbelieved
29:24and took My Signs and My Messengers as a mockery.
29:30Verily, those who believe and do good works,
29:36the Gardens of Paradise will be their abode.
29:42They will abide therein, they will not desire any change therefrom.
29:48Say, If the sea were a blanket for the words of my Lord,
29:53the sea would surely swallow you up before the words of my Lord would swallow you up,
30:00even if We brought with it the like of it as a support.
30:05Say, I am but a human being like you.
30:11It is revealed to me that your God is but One God.
30:22So whosoever hopes to meet his Lord,
30:28let him do good works,
30:32and associate no one with the worship of his Lord.