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Examples of Faithfulness in the Qur'an

wards Him. In the Qur'an, Allah describes the virtues of the compan-
ions of the Cave:
Do you consider that the Companions of the Cave and Ar-

Raqim were one of the most remarkable of Our Signs? When
the young men took refuge in the cave and said, "Our Lord,
give us mercy directly from You and open the way for us to
right guidance in our situation." (Surat al-Kahf, 9-10)
We fortified their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our
Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth and We will not
call on any god apart from Him. We would in that case have

uttered an abomination." (Surat al-Kahf, 14)
[We said to them,] "When you have separated yourselves from
them and everything they worship except Allah, take refuge
in the cave and your Lord will unfold His mercy to you and
open the way to the best for you in your situation." (Surat al-
Kahf, 16)
With the words in the Qur'an, "We fortified their hearts,"Allah in-
forms us of how determined and patient they were in putting their faith
in our Lord.
In another verse, Allah shows the faithfulness of certain young

people who, despite the oppression of Pharaoh, were submissive to
Allah and believed in Prophet Musa (as):
No one believed in Musa except [some] offspring [i.e., youths]
among his people, out of fear that Pharaoh, and the elders,
would persecute them. Pharaoh was high and mighty in the
land. He was one of the profligate. (Surah Yunus, 83)
The fact that such young people chose a life of difficulty, living in

caves in order to defy the oppression of the non-believers, and win the

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