Surah Al Kahf Tafseer

The Response of the Poor Believer

Allah tells:

قَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُ

His companion said to him during his discussion:

Allah tells us how the rich man's believing companion replied to him, warning and rebuking him for his disbelief in Allah and allowing himself to be deceived.

أَكَفَرْتَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِن تُرَابٍ

Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you out of dust...

This is a denunciation, pointing out the seriousness of his rejection of his Lord Who created and formed man out of dust -- that is, referring to Adam --

ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُلً

then out of Nutfah, then fashioned you into a man!"

then made his offspring from despised liquid, as Allah says:

كَيْفَ تَكْفُرُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَكُنتُمْ أَمْوَتًا فَأَحْيَـكُمْ

How can you disbelieve in Allah Seeing that you were dead and He gave you life. (2:28)

meaning, how can you reject your Lord and His clear signs to you, which every one recognizes in himself, for there is no one among His creatures who does not know that he was nothing, then he came to be, and his existence is not due to himself or any other creature. He knows that his existence is due to his Creator, beside Whom there is no other god, the Creator of all things.

So the believer said