[18].Surah Al-Kahf [The Cave]: Ayat 18

 

Ayat 18. And you would have thought them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them on their right and on their left sides, and their dog stretching forth his two forelegs at the entrance [of the Cave or in the space near to the entrance of the Cave (as a guard at the gate)]. Had you looked at them, you would certainly have turned back from them in flight, and would certainly have been filled with awe of them.

[Tafseer] Perhaps their eyes were open, even though their senses were sealed in sleep. They turned about their sides as men do in sleep. Dog is guarding the door stretching forth his two forelegs at the entrance [of the Cave or in the space near to the entrance of the Cave. This detail of the sleepers explains the human mechanism by which their safely was ensured by Allah from their Pagan enemies.

Hazrat Abdullah bin `Umar (May allah be pleased with them) reported: Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) took hold of my shoulders and said, "Be in the world like a stranger or a wayfarer". Ibn `Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) used to say: "When you survive till the evening, do not expect to live until the morning; and when you survive until the morning, do not expect to live until the evening; (do good deeds) when you are in good health before you fall sick, and (do good deeds) as long as you are alive before death strikes".

[Al-Bukhari Book 08, Chapter 76, Hadith # 425]. 

Lesson : A person who will consider this world as a temporary stage, will certainly not like that his clothes be entangled in thorny bushes of this world. The greatest fault of man is that he does not understand this status of the world. In spite of the fact that he is not sure of a moment's life here, he occupies himself in amassing goods and riches which would last for a hundred years.