Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age
A commentary reading the Qur'an's eighteenth chapter as a guide to the trials of the modern world.
Surah al-Kahf, the eighteenth chapter of the Qur’an, is traditionally recited on Fridays and is held to offer protection from the trial of Dajjal. Hosein reads its four narratives, the sleepers in the cave, the owner of two gardens, Moses and Khidr, and Dhu al-Qarnayn, as a single argument about faith under pressure, and applies each to what he takes to be the distinctive trials of the modern age.
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