Background Info of Surah Kahf:
Surah Kahf is a makkan surat meaning revealed the time in which the prophet pbuh was still in Mecca and had not yet migrated to Madinah. During the Makkan period there was a lot of persecution, trials and new reverts to Islam. Those who weren’t that new of a revert were still relatively new given the fact that the prophet pbuh has been a prophet for only 10 years. So Islam still new and many things yet to learn. Surah Kahf, also known as the cave is a motivational surat. It was revealed between 8th- 10th year of the prophet pbuh’s prophethood. The surat has 110 verses, over 1500 words and over 6000 hurufs; thus minimum reward for reciting this surah is 60,000 good deeds.
VERSE 1
[All] praise is [due] to Allah , who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance.
The surat starts with praise of Allah swt. Allah has sent down to His prophet pbuh the Qur’an. The Qur’an has no deviation, error and contradictions. Allah swt is truly deserving of praise due to His perfection in attributes, actions and decisions. Surat Al-Isra, the previous surat started with Subhanallah (Glory to Allah) and now this one starts with Alhamdulillah (all praises to Allah).
*The surat starts with Alhamdulillah because favour and blessing of revelation of Qur’an mentioned so we say Alhamdulillah that we’ve been given the Qur’an. Some say the Qur’an is problematic but reality is its perfect and factual and its us who is not reading and understanding it properly. Thus we need to educate ourselves more in order to understand speech of Allah swt.
Notice that Allah swt refers to Muhammad pbuh as His servant. We tend to think that being called a servant is a disgrace but being the servant of Allah swt is the most honourable position and title one can be and have. We were created to be servants of Allah swt and when one does what was made for, its the best thing because if he/she isn't doing what's suppose to be done then that individual is useless. Take the example of a machine. The designer and maker of that machine created it to function and do the work that its designed to do; but if the machine doesn't do what its suppose to do, then we say that machine is malfunctioning and useless.
VERSE 2
