It is recommended to read Surah Kahf every Friday

the surah contains 4 prominent stories

diving into the importance and understanding why God wanted to give us a weekly reminder of its lessons

https://www.imamghazali.org/blog/tafsir-surah-kahf-11-26-sleepers-cave?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=12208451882&gbraid=0AAAAACU8dweATBQtRiKldZKLhk_tBO0Y2&gclid=CjwKCAjwg7PDBhBxEiwAf1CVuypEVDe0BUV6tR4853rqtZ8jStxV8jD_P6ENSmiFxu0BGUv7vhI-qxoCwZwQAvD_BwE

https://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_tafsir_surat_al_kahf_chapter_18.pdf

The People of the Cave → Faith Under Pressure

(11) So, We sealed their ears in the cave for a number of years (12) Then, We awakened them that We may know which of the two parties had better measured the period of time that they had tarried.

A group of believers who were expelled for believing in God and choosing islam were guided to sleep for 300 years

• Trust in God → they had to leave everything and fall in almost a “blind trust” choosing to sleep and accept a new world where they knew nothing
• Patience → letting go of everything you know and isolating from the world
• Faith → after 300 years of sleeping the believers found themselves in a world that accepted and welcomed them

People can go through phases of their life I would define as a “training arc”, times that test their patience, times of isolation, times where they have to accept that they do not have the things that they want

There could be different reasons why God isn’t aligning you with the things you want, that does not mean that you are not capable of attaining them

Trust in Him, be patient, it is okay to stay “asleep” to the rest of the world, do what you need to do… when you resurface the world will be right for you

The Man with Two Gardens → The Illusion of Wealth

Tale of a man who boasted his gardens, eventually he was stripped of them and had his gardens destroyed

• The man only valued material and superficial things
• Instead of being grateful, valuing, and sustaining what he had, he boasted and showed off
• Often times if is only when you are stripped of everything that you realize you maybe had nothing all along, the only true things we have are those things that we work for, value, and are grateful for

Nothing in this world truly belongs to us, and boasting and showing off never has any productive value in anyone’s life