In the Name of Allah, the Most Benificient, the Most Merciful.
"and they stayed in their Cave, three hundred years, and add nine."
-surah al-kahfi verse 25 (literally translated)
what does the ashabul kahfi have anything to do with accurate?...well...it happened around january this year, one of my arabic teacher that tought me in egypt told us (my classmates and I) about what is hidden between this sentence...
why did Allah mentioned that the 'ashabul kahfi' stayed in that cave for 300 years and add 9 instead of 309 years?...there must be some interesting meaning hidden by the word 'add'...so al-mufassiriin studied this sentence and walla!~...they discovered the proof of Allah as the 'All Knower' and 'All Wise'...
on studying the meaningof this verse...they found out that, it was mentioned 300 years and add 9 because...
the 300 years represent the solar years whilst if we calculate it according to the lunar years it is 309 years...wicked huh?...
(each lunar year lacks 10 days compared to the solar years...)
isn't it amazing how accurate Allah is when retelling a history!!!! even on minor issue like this~ ...as we talk and retelling stories...sentences like this oftens comes out...
"erm...i think...maybe around three hundred years ago..."
"i dunno...it's sumwhere around 300 years i guess..."
many hesitance, loads of unsureness...well, Allah wasn't kidding when he sent down this verse...
translation of surah an-Nur verse 15...
we could see now...by just talking, we might let slip some minor lies that may be completed into a big chaos... so being accurate is obligatory...we have to try, and if we do...what ever happens next we leave for Allah to decide...
~a sweet memory if i read surah al-Kahfi and a wonderful reminder to remember...
first of all to myself and for others...
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