Channel: The Masked Arab

Category: Education

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Description: This video will look at Surat al-Kahf, the Quranic chapter Mohamed claimed was revealed to him after he struggled to answer a challenge by non-believers to inform them of old legends. We will see how Mohamed struggled to meet previous challenges to prove his prophethood to the sceptics and how he struggled with this challenge and how he keeps his answers vague and useless. Clearly embarrassed by being put on the spot, he comes up with the most bizarre excuses of why he couldn't provide a response in the time he promised it would take him. He laters has the critic who challenged him with these legends executed as a prisoner of war in Muslim hands. My next video will continue to look at the third of the two challenges he was given and in particular to the verse clearly saying a noble powerful man called DhulQarnayn reached the setting place of the Sun here on the Earth's surface. Follow me on social media: Twitter - twitter.com/themaskedarab Facebook - facebook.com/themaskedarab Support my work on Patreon if you can so I can devote more time to this YouTube channel patreon.com/themaskedarab Sources for video (please note many sources used are only in Arabic as far as I can tell - I will link them here anyway) Jalalayn commentary on Quranic verse 6:37 that says "most of them do not know" being explained as they don't know they would have to die if they see a miracle and reject it. altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=37&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2 NASA denying moon was split in the past (it's quite sad if you need to double check this!) sservi.nasa.gov/?question=evidence-moon-having-been-split-two Some links to the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. britannica.com/topic/Seven-Sleepers-of-Ephesus oca.org/saints/lives/2011/08/04/102195-7-holy-youths-ldquoseven-sleepersrdquo-of-ephesus The background story of this Cave chapter explained in Mohamed's life story - Ibn Ishaq's Sira (Ibn Hisham edit) archive.org/stream/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume/The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume#page/n89/mode/2up Story begins on page 133 The same story for the background of the story in al-Tabari's tafsir (exegesis). (Arabic only) altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=1&tSoraNo=18&tAyahNo=1&tDisplay=yes&Page=2&Size=1&LanguageId=1 Ibn Kathir's version of the same story (Arabic only): altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=7&tSoraNo=18&tAyahNo=1&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1 Qurtubi's version of background to this chapter (Arabic only): altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=5&tSoraNo=18&tAyahNo=1&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1 The story of Al-Nadr's execution when he was a prisoner among the Muslims (page 308). archive.org/stream/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume/The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume#page/n177/mode/2up/search/prisoners Other myths involving long duration sleepers orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/13th/papers/Horst.pdf Tabari's tafsir showing the confusion between Muslims on who actually built the edifice (masjid) over the cave dwellers highlighting that Muslims didn't even understand the story properly: (in Arabic) altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=1&tSoraNo=18&tAyahNo=21&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1 Ibn Kathir's tafsir on the same issue: qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2736&Itemid=73 Tabari's tafsir showing there was another version of the Quran which had a different meaning to the verse explaining who said the cave dwellers slept for 309 years, Allah or the non-believers. (in Arabic) altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=1&tSoraNo=18&tAyahNo=25&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1 Ibn Kathir's tafsir highlighting the same issue on the variation found in Ibn Masud's Quran: (in Arabic) altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo=7&tSoraNo=18&tAyahNo=25&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1 Thank you for watching!