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Conclusion

hroughout this book, we examined the revelation of wisdom,
remembrance, and lessons contained in Surat al-Kahf. We ex-
T T plained the inherent wisdom in its verses, as our Lord com-
mands in: "Remember Allah’s blessing to you, and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you" (Surat al-Baqara,
231).
Every Muslim is responsible for trying to understand and live by the
wisdom revealed in the verses and for telling people about them, as
Allah says:
There is instruction in their stories for people of intelligence.
This is not a narration that has been invented, but a confirma-
tion of all that came before, a clarification of everything, and a
guidance and a mercy for people who believe. (Surah Yusuf,
111)
For every person seeking guidance and wisdom, the book you are
holding in your hands contains very important reflections on devotion,
obedience, submission to destiny, this worldly and temporary life,
Allah’s being beyond time and space, His servants who are blessed by
special knowledge, the end awaiting those who grow arrogant toward
Allah’s revelation, and the blissful future waiting those who believe.
Surat al-Kahf also contains very good news for the believers: the ap-
proaching glorious period of the End Times. If Surat al-Kahf is viewed
from this perspective, it points at the different phases (the beginning,
development, and conclusion) of Islam during the End Times, which
culminates in the rule of Islam and concludes with the arrival of

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