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It says: “…This is of the Signs of Allah, whomever Allah guides, he is rightly guided, and whomever He leaves to stray, you shall never find for him any guiding friend.” Yes, those who step in the way of Allah and struggle for Him, Allah will help them with His Grace in every single of their steps. It is not only for the basis of their work, but His Grace encompasses them in all their affairs, too.

Their sleep was not an ordinary sleep, because if you looked at them you might think that they were awake, but they had been sleeping. The verse says: “And you might think them awake while they were asleep…” This exceptional case, perhaps, had been for the sake that harmful animals would not approach them, or for the sake that their view might become so dreadful that none would dare approach them, in a manner that this circumstance could work as a protective shield for them.

In order that their bodies would not decay as a result of passing a long time of years when they were in their sleep, they were turned unto the right and unto the left sides, so that their bodies could remain sound. They were turned this side and that side for that the blood of their bodies might not concentrate in one point of the body, and the pressure and the height, which were on those muscles that were on the ground for a long time, would not affect on the body harmfully.

The verse continues saying: “…and We turned them unto the right and unto the left (sides)…” Their dog had stretched forth his two fore-legs on the threshold of the Cave, guarding them.

The verse continues saying: “…and their dog stretching out his paws on the threshold...” Another fact about them was that they had a dreadful sight, so that: “…If you looked at them you would certainly turn back from them in flight and you would certainly be filled with terror of them.” Explanations The cave of the of the Cave geographically was neither toward the East nor toward the West, but it was toward the North-eastern, where the sun would not shine into the depth of it in any season.

The ideas are divided upon the sight of the Cave. Some commentators say that it had been in the mountains around Syria which is now known as ‘the cave of the of the Cave’. Some others believe that it had been located around Omman, the capital of Jordan, where several ancient graves are found and an engraving of a dog is carved on the wall, upon which there is an old monastery, and Muslims have built a mosque thereabout, too.