Surah Kahf

Foysol89 β€”

Assalamu alaikum πŸ˜ƒ Jummah Mubarak.

It is recommended to recite Surat al-Kahf completely the night before Friday, and it is also recommended to do so Friday itself, before Maghrib time. Ibn Abidin said, οΏ½And it is best to do so early on Friday, in order to rush to the good and to avoid forgetting. οΏ½ [Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, οΏ½Bab al-Jumu`ahοΏ½]

The evidence for it being recommended includes the hadith related by Hakim and Bayhaqi, from Abu Sa`id (Allah be pleased with him), οΏ½Whoever recites Surat al-Kahf on Friday, light shall shine forth for him between the two Fridays.οΏ½ [Ibn Hajar, Talkhis al-Habir]

Here's the link insha Allah http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=782&CATE=3

Forum

Foysol89 β€” Thu, 20 Oct 2011 - 23:22

It's yawm al Jummah.....now back to surah Kahf πŸ˜ƒ

LookingToSee β€” Fri, 21 Oct 2011 - 17:23

I read it! so i cant really go back.

I love Fridays coz i finish early!

backto surah Kahf.

Foysol89 β€” Fri, 21 Oct 2011 - 23:27

I was reading surah Kahf last night....but i don't read it often, usually listen to it or read translation. Yeah i found it really hard to recite surah kahf, felt dyslexic almost, almost gave up tryna read it. Don't know why i found it so hard to read....maybe because i barely recognised any of the words.

Need to read it more often me thinks

TPOS β€” Fri, 21 Oct 2011 - 23:30

Yeah it's just cuz u don't read it often so no used to the words so u were probs slow

LookingToSee β€” Sat, 22 Oct 2011 - 08:51

i was the same at the beginning (when i decided i'd read it everyfrida) i remember coming bck from school and sitting on top of bunk bed and reading. but alhamdoulillah and may Allah grant my parents Jannatul Firdaws, when it come to learning arabic i've been to a really good madrassah. so it's never been hard hard hard (oh there was plenty of grammar to compensate for the reading ease; i remember tearful evenings-before-madrassah..)

back to topic. I'd advice everyone to just keep at it, reading it everyweek will DEFO help and soon enough you'll be fluent as..euh...water! (its late...)

and if you need more motivation, then remember that surah Kahf is a light between the two fridays and that you get two reward when you struggle with the Quran and that every letter you read = 10 good deeds. (i'll inshaaAllh get all the ahadith for this)

buuut if its still hard; i'd advice reading an ayah, reading the translation, reading an ayah, reading the translation etc...

'al maalu wa banoona zinatu fil hayatid dunya' when i read this, i know im halfway.

Surah kahf is worth it. i love it how i just have to take my quran and open it right in the middle and i'd fall on it. i also love how it has exactly 110 ayahs. just awesome.

anyway...........;;

Foysol89 β€” Fri, 21 Oct 2011 - 23:56

Yup just gonna stick at it insha Allah. I know shaytan was whispering in my ear last night, i just reminded myself of what you mentioned above about getting double reward for struggling and the rewards of reciting surah kahf and alhamdulillah i got through it. Felt great afterwards though i must say, felt like quickly turning to surah Ya'sin though just to read something fluently. I remember when i was struggling to read that even at one point but yup just gotta stick to it.

Love the meaning of the surah too πŸ˜ƒ every time i recognised a word i tried to figure out the meaning πŸ™‚

Bilan β€” Sat, 22 Oct 2011 - 09:00

yup key is repetition. I managed to learn surah Naba almost by heart by hearing my teacher read it to one of the neighbour kids when we used to have lessons together without having read it so imagine what u can do when u do! Have u tried repeating after a reciter? line by line? its longer that way, but that way youll be able to read it a lot more fluently next time as compared to just reading it yourself without listening to the reciter first.

and since ull be reading it every friday inshaaAllah, u might find urself beginning to memorise after a few weeks inshaaAllah.

Foysol89 β€” Thu, 27 Oct 2011 - 22:42

Assalamu alaikum πŸ˜ƒ

Jummah Mubarak, try your best to read surah Kahf insha Allah and if you struggle there's double the reward for you.

Foysol89 β€” Thu, 3 Nov 2011 - 20:16

Wow subhanallah. Today Jummah, tomorrow Day Of Arafat and then EIIIIIIIDDDDD πŸ˜ƒ

Now though Surah Kahf πŸ˜‰

Foysol89 β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 21:45

Don't know if this is connected or not but last week i never made time to read surah Kahf and this whole week since friday night just fekt completly different to the last week where i didnread surah Kahf.

I felt like this whole week my imaan wasn't as strong and that my desires were being tested more. This whole week i've just felt kinda low as opposed to last week and for some reason i feel as it's connected to me not reading surah Kahf.

Insha Allah i'll be reading surah Kahf tonight and insha Allah, Allah will strengthen my imaan.

Jummah Mubarak πŸ˜ƒ

TPOS β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 21:56

One could argue you're finding significance in coincidence

:p

Would not carrying out a sunnah lead to something negative? A punishment? I mean you're not doing it anything wrong, you're just not doing anything extra that is right...?

Bilan β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 22:03

I knew it wasnt just me! dude u been slacking! Was nice to see it on forums again though.

I think there are some sunnahs if u dnt do them for a very long time u can get sins for them though i cant remember specifically which ones. (sunnah prayer before fajr perhaps?)

TPOS β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 22:12

[quote=bilan]I knew it wasnt just me! dude u been slacking! Was nice to see it on forums again though.

I think there are some sunnahs if u dnt do them for a very long time u can get sins for them though i cant remember specifically which ones. (sunnah prayer before fajr perhaps?)[/quote]
AFAIK it's all Sunnah Muakkadah (regular, emphasised practice of the Prophet (saw))

but I'm talking about just the other extras. I don't think reading surah Kahf falls into the same category as not reading those sunnahs...?

Bilan β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 22:24

[quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE][quote=bilan]I knew it wasnt just me! dude u been slacking! Was nice to see it on forums again though.

I think there are some sunnahs if u dnt do them for a very long time u can get sins for them though i cant remember specifically which ones. (sunnah prayer before fajr perhaps?)[/quote]
AFAIK it's all Sunnah Muakkadah (regular, emphasised practice of the Prophet (saw))

but I'm talking about just the other extras. I don't think reading surah Kahf falls into the same category as not reading those sunnahs...?[/quote]

perhaps not surah Kahf, but i suppose if u get into the habit then not doing it could make u feel out of synch.

AFAIK in regards to sunnah mukhkadah such as the sunnah prayer before fajr if u leave it long enough it can get sinful. Like if something is makrukh and u do it long enough it becomes haraam AFAIK. One thing someone at the masjid said about that was "if something IS makrukh why would u want to continue it if the purpose of our lives is to please Allah(swt)? Nicely said I personally thought.Ive been attending my local masjid for a while now πŸ˜ƒ (sorry for the change of topic Jim Bob. I blame feefs as usual)

TPOS β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 22:52

[quote=bilan][quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE][quote=bilan]I knew it wasnt just me! dude u been slacking! Was nice to see it on forums again though.

I think there are some sunnahs if u dnt do them for a very long time u can get sins for them though i cant remember specifically which ones. (sunnah prayer before fajr perhaps?)[/quote]
AFAIK it's all Sunnah Muakkadah (regular, emphasised practice of the Prophet (saw))

but I'm talking about just the other extras. I don't think reading surah Kahf falls into the same category as not reading those sunnahs...?[/quote]

perhaps not surah Kahf, but i suppose if u get into the habit then not doing it could make u feel out of synch.

AFAIK in regards to sunnah mukhkadah such as the sunnah prayer before fajr if u leave it long enough it can get sinful. Like if something is makrukh and u do it long enough it becomes haraam AFAIK. One thing someone at the masjid said about that was "if something IS makrukh why would u want to continue it if the purpose of our lives is to please Allah(swt)? Nicely said I personally thought.Ive been attending my local masjid for a while now πŸ˜ƒ (sorry for the change of topic Jim Bob. I blame feefs as usual)[/quote]
lol why are you repeating what's already been said?

Anyway that was a pointless post for me. OBVIOUSLY the more sunnah you partake in, the more your iman grows, the better everything is. Like DUH

Bilan β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 22:58

[quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE][quote=bilan][quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE][quote=bilan]I knew it wasnt just me! dude u been slacking! Was nice to see it on forums again though.

I think there are some sunnahs if u dnt do them for a very long time u can get sins for them though i cant remember specifically which ones. (sunnah prayer before fajr perhaps?)[/quote]
AFAIK it's all Sunnah Muakkadah (regular, emphasised practice of the Prophet (saw))

but I'm talking about just the other extras. I don't think reading surah Kahf falls into the same category as not reading those sunnahs...?[/quote]

perhaps not surah Kahf, but i suppose if u get into the habit then not doing it could make u feel out of synch.

AFAIK in regards to sunnah mukhkadah such as the sunnah prayer before fajr if u leave it long enough it can get sinful. Like if something is makrukh and u do it long enough it becomes haraam AFAIK. One thing someone at the masjid said about that was "if something IS makrukh why would u want to continue it if the purpose of our lives is to please Allah(swt)? Nicely said I personally thought.Ive been attending my local masjid for a while now πŸ˜ƒ (sorry for the change of topic Jim Bob. I blame feefs as usual)[/quote]
lol why are you repeating what's already been said?

Anyway that was a pointless post for me. OBVIOUSLY the more sunnah you partake in, the more your iman grows, the better everything is. Like DUH[/quote]

im not!

well ur post made it seem like u were disregarding the point I made about the sunnah prayers before fajr cos its a sunnah mukhada.u need to go bed

TPOS β€” Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - 23:00

[quote=bilan]

well ur post made it seem like u were disregarding the point I made about the sunnah prayers before fajr cos its a sunnah mukhada.u need to go bed[/quote]
riight. I'm pretty sure you're the one who misunderstood, but nvm πŸ™‚

TPOS β€” Fri, 30 Dec 2011 - 18:56

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNalsDuvpUY]

Foysol's quoted them already but I find the last verses of the surah the most powerful

[qs:18:103-110]

Also I've had this verse playing in my head since I read it this morning:

[qs:18:3]

πŸ™‚

TPOS β€” Fri, 30 Dec 2011 - 23:11

Wa iyyak πŸ˜ƒ ...it was a late reminder though, Jumuah had finished πŸ™

TPOS β€” Fri, 30 Dec 2011 - 23:15

[quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE][video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNalsDuvpUY]

Foysol's quoted them already but I find the last verses of the surah the most powerful

[qs:18:103-110]

[/quote]
That translation uses an odd word for hell - gehenna - I should've got the meaning but googled it - "(in Judaism and the New Testament) Hell"

LookingToSee β€” Fri, 13 Jan 2012 - 18:45

i was looking for this topic earlier today to listen to one of the vids..but coz i wasnt logged in i couldnt find it and ended up going on youtube all by myself... πŸ™

Foysol89 β€” Fri, 17 Feb 2012 - 15:08

[quote=Lilly][/quote]

πŸ™‚ enjoyed reading that again

Foysol89 β€” Fri, 17 Feb 2012 - 15:10

What happened to the quote ? -__- anyway jazakallah khair for the reminder