Aya za Leo - Hadithi ya Vijana kwenye pango (The Story of the Youth from the cave)

Bali unadhani ya kwamba wale Watu wa Pangoni na Maandishi walikuwa ni ajabu miongoni mwa ishara zetu?Vijana hao walipo kimbilia kwenye pango walisema: Mola wetu Mlezi! Tupe rehema itokayo kwako, na tutengezee uwongofu katika jambo letu.Tukayaziba masikio yao kuwalaza humo pangoni kwa muda wa miaka kadhaa wa kadhaa.Kisha tukawazindua ili tujue ni lipi katika makundi mawili lilio hisabu sawa muda walio kaa. 

 

Sisi tunakusimulia khabari zao kwa kweli. Hakika wao walikuwa ni vijana walio muamini Mola wao Mlezi. Na Sisi tukawazidisha uwongofu.Na tukazitia nguvu nyoyo zao walipo simama na wakasema: Mola wetu Mlezi ni Mola Mlezi wa mbingu na ardhi. Hatutamwita mwenginewe kabisa badala yake kuwa ni Mungu. Hivyo itakuwa tumesema jambo la kuvuka mpaka.

 

Hawa watu wetu wameshika miungu mingine badala yake Yeye. Kwa nini basi hawawatolei uthibitisho ulio dhaahiri? Na nani aliye dhaalimu zaidi kuliko anaye mzulia uwongo Mwenyezi Mungu?Na mkijitenga nao na vile wanavyo viabudu badala ya Mwenyezi Mungu, basi kimbilieni pangoni, akufungulieni Mola wenu Mlezi rehema yake, na akutengenezeeni ya kukufaeni katika mambo yenu.

 

Na (ungelikuwepo) ungeliona jua linapo chomoza linainamia kuliani mwao kutoka hapo pangoni; na linapo kuchwa linawakwepa kushotoni, na wao wamo katika uwazi wa pango. Hizo ni katika ishara za Mwenyezi Mungu. Ambaye Mwenyezi Mungu anamwongoa basi huyo ni mwenye kuongoka. Na anaye muacha kupotea basi hutampatia mlinzi wala mwongozi.Nawe utawadhania wamacho, na hali wamelala. Nasi tunawageuza kulia na kushoto. Na mbwa wao amenyoosha miguu yake ya mbele kizingitini. Kama unge watokea hapana shaka ungeli geuka kuwakimbia, kwa khofu.

 

Na kwa namna hii tuliwainua usingizini wapate kuulizana wao kwa wao. Alisema msemaji katika wao: Mmekaa muda gani? Wakasema: Tumekaa siku moja au sehemu ya siku. Wakasema: Mola wenu Mlezi anajua zaidi muda mlio kaa. Hebu mtumeni mmoja wenu na hizi fedha zenu ende mjini, akatazame chakula chake kipi kilicho bora kabisa akuleteeni cha kukila. Naye afanye mambo hayo kwa busara, wala asikutajeni kabisa kwa yeyote.Kwani wao wakikutambueni watakupigeni mawe, au watakurudisheni katika dini yao; na hapo hamtafanikiwa kabisa! 

 

Na namna hivi tuliwa juulisha kwa watu wapate kujua ya kwamba ahadi ya Mwenyezi Mungu ni ya kweli, na kwamba Saa haina shaka. Walipo kuwa wakigombania jambo lao wao kwa wao walisema: Jengeni jengo juu yao. Mola wao Mlezi anawajua vyema. Wakasema walio shinda katika shauri yao: Bila ya shaka tutawajengea msikiti juu yao. 

 

Watasema: Walikuwa watatu, wa nne wao ni mbwa wao. Na wanasema: Walikuwa watano, wa sita wao ni mbwa wao. Wanavurumisha ovyo. Na wanasema: Walikuwa saba, na wa nane wao ni mbwa wao. Sema: Mola wangu Mlezi ndiye anaye jua sawa sawa hisabu yao. Hawawajui ila wachache tu. Basi usibishane juu yao ila kwa mabishano ya juu juu tu hivi. Wala usiulize khabari zao kwa yeyote yule.

 

Na walikaa katika pango lao miaka mia tatu, na wakazidisha tisa.Sema: Mwenyezi Mungu anajua zaidi muda walio kaa. Ni zake tu siri za mbingu na ardhi. Kuona kulioje na kusikia kwake! Hawana mlinzi isipo kuwa Yeye, wala hamshirikishi yeyote katika hukumu yake. 

>>>Cont... in English 

Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder?[Mention] when the youths retreated to the cave and said, "Our Lord, grant us from Yourself mercy and prepare for us from our affair right guidance." So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years. Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time.

 

It is We who relate to you, [O Muhammad], their story in truth. Indeed, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance. And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.

 

These, our people, have taken besides Him deities. Why do they not bring for [worship of] them a clear authority? And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie?" [The youths said to one another], "And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allah , retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility."

 

And [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [laying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allah . He whom Allah guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He leaves astray - never will you find for him a protecting guide. And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog stretched his forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror.

 

And similarly, We awakened them that they might question one another. Said a speaker from among them, "How long have you remained [here]?" They said, "We have remained a day or part of a day." They said, "Your Lord is most knowing of how long you remained. So send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city and let him look to which is the best of food and bring you provision from it and let him be cautious. And let no one be aware of you. Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or return you to their religion. And never would you succeed, then - ever."

 

And similarly, We caused them to be found that they [who found them] would know that the promise of Allah is truth and that of the Hour there is no doubt. [That was] when they disputed among themselves about their affair and [then] said, "Construct over them a structure. Their Lord is most knowing about them." Said those who prevailed in the matter, "We will surely take [for ourselves] over them a masjid."

 

They will say there were three, the fourth of them being their dog; and they will say there were five, the sixth of them being their dog - guessing at the unseen; and they will say there were seven, and the eighth of them was their dog. Say, [O Muhammad], "My Lord is most knowing of their number. None knows them except a few. So do not argue about them except with an obvious argument and do not inquire about them among [the speculators] from anyone."

 

And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.

 

Say, " Allah is most knowing of how long they remained. He has [knowledge of] the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth. How Seeing is He and how Hearing! They have not besides Him any protector, and He shares not His legislation with anyone."  (Qur'an 18:9-22,25-26)

Jumaa Mubarak Everyone. Don't forget to squeeze in some ayas from Suratul Al-Kahf.