Surah Al Kahf (Chapter 18) in the Quran is full of wisdom. In the previous posts in our blog, we covered the insights into the three stories of the Moosa (AS) and their relevance to his own life.
Recently Shaikh Obaid spoke about a further analysis of those three events that the Quran mentions while Moosa (AS) and the Pious man (some refer to him as Al Khidr (AS)) were together.
Briefly; the three events are,
1) Al Khidr makes a hole in the boat they are on.
2) Al Khidr slays boy they meet on the way.
3) Al Khidr and Moosa (AS) repair a wall near a town , though its people refuse to entertain them as guests.
Al Khidr then goes to talk about 'Hikmah' (wisdom) behind his actions,
1) The boat belonged to the poor men who worked on the river and with a hole, it was saved from a king who would cease every boat by force, because it had been damaged.
2) The slain boy's parents were believers and it was feared that boy would make disobedience and ingratitude to his parents if he lived. And the parents were given a child better than him in purity and near to having compassion.
3) And the wall belong to two orphan boys in the town, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them, and their late father was a righteous man. So it was a plan by Allah (SWT) that they should attain their maturity and take out their treasure.
If we think about each event , we find that the 'Hikmah' (wisdom) of Allah (SWT) was revealed to the affected parties at different points in time.
1) In the first incident, the men of the boat found the reason shortly after the damage was done when their boat was spared by the cruel king.
Wisdom: Sometimes Allah reveals the reason for an event shortly after it happens.
2) In the second, the parents of the slain boy were perhaps unaware of the wisdom behind killing of their child. They would have grieved for a long time and saddened by the event mostly for rest of their lives without knowing why it happened, until of course Allah discloses it to them on the day of Judgement.
Wisdom: Sometimes Allah does not reveal the reason for an event at all, and is left to Aakhirah.
3) And finally, the orphan boys would have discovered the repair to the wall and treasure under it when they reached maturity (the word used in the Quran implies when they were 40 years old).
Wisdom: And , sometimes Allah reveals the reason after a long time , sometimes after many years.
We learn from above that it is befitting for us, as slaves of Allah (SWT) to stay patient in the face of calamities and problems even if we don't understand the reason or wisdom behind them immediately. This is because, and as is evident from three events mentioned, nothing in this life is devoid of Allah's divine wisdom and plan.
