The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 677
PT. 15 AL-KAHF CH. 18 حُوْتَهُم فَلَمَّا بَلَغَا مَجْمَعَ بَيْنِهِمَا نَيَا حُوا But when they reached the. 62 فَاتَّخَذَ سَبِيْلَهُ فِي الْبَحْرِ سَرَبًا place where the two seas met, they forgot their fish, and it made its way into the sea going away swiftly 2102 فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَا قَالَ لِفَتْهُ أُتِنَا غَدَاءَنَا And when they had gone. 63 further, he said to his young The expressioni. e. junction of two seas, denotes the time when the Mosaic Dispensation was to have come to an end and the Islamic Dispensation to have commenced. According to Ta‘ṭīrul-Anām (sea), when seen in a vision, signifies a powerful, just and kind king. It also signifies praise and glorification of God. In the first sense of the word, (sea) the expression would mean the meeting place of two (sarabun) means, going away swiftly, a subterranean excavation; a habitation beneath the earth having a passage through it; the burrow or hole of a wild animal; the den of a lion. The Quranic expression alw means, it (the fish) took its way into the sea swiftly, etc. (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: (fish) when seen in a vision powerful, just and kind kings i. e. denotes the houses of worship of Moses and the Holy Prophet Muḥammad, and according to the second signification, the expression denotes the junction of the two seas of God's glorification which means two religious Dispensations-Mosaic and Islamic. The words, Or I will journey on for ages, signify that the Mosaic Dispensation would remain in force for many centuries. The period from the time of Moses to the advent of the Holy Prophet when the Mosaic Dispensation came to an end extends over 2000 years. 2102. Important Words: (going away swiftly) is derived from They say i. e. the water flowed. means, the سرب في الارض. man went at random means, he went away in the land. ☑ righteous people (Ta'ṭīrul-Anām). In this sense of the word the expression, when they reached the place where the two seas met, they forgot their fish, means that at the time when the Mosaic and the Islamic Dispensations met, i. e. when Mosaic Dispensation ceased to function and the Islamic Dispensation came into force, true righteousness would depart from among the followers of Moses and Jesus and would henceforward become the special mark of the followers of the new Dispensation (48:30). The verse under comment also shows that the Islamic Dispensation was, in fact, continuation of the Dispensation. Being two consecutive parts of God's eternal guidance, no such thing as the "junction of two seas" existed in the time of Moses. 1885 a Mosaic