Verse 18. “And you would have thought them awake while they were asleep and I turned them on their right sides and on their left sides and their dog lay with its front legs stretched out at the entrance of the cave. Had you seen them you would have turned and fled filled with fear of them.”
They did not exhibit the normal signs of relaxation usually associated with sleep. Instead they appeared to be awake. [Ibn Uthaimeen].
No mention of turning them on their backs and on their stomachs. Sleeping on stomachs is harmful. “Allah's Messenger saw a man lying on his stomach and said, “Indeed, this is a way of lying not pleasing to Allah.” [Sunan At Tirmidhee].
“Poor sleep posture is a sure invitation to backaches. Use a firm mattress. Lie on the side a bend to the knees. Avoid lying on the belly, a position that increase the spine's lumbar curve, causing the familiar sagging called swayback” Time Magazine July 14, 1980.
Less incidence of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) when babies are lying on their backs.
It is probably worthy to note here that in bed ridden patients it is a standard nursing protocol to turn the patients every two hours to avoid pressure sores – a condition that leads to breakdown of the skin and can go as deep as the bone. [Abu Khalid]
Dogs as guards. “Whoever keeps a dog for other than farming, sheep herding or hunting, will have two qirats decreased from his good deeds daily.” (Bukhari). To protect one's home and one's person with a dog is even more reasonable.
The Youth's prayer were answered by Allah: they were protected. Qadar and Prayer. Islam teachers that prayer can change situations. It might seem difficult to comprehend how prayer can change everything, since Islam also teaches that everything which will happen has already been written. That is, if all things are already written, then what is the point in prayer? This is a question which boggles the mind of many. However, the reality is simply that what is written is what one does. It is not that one does it because it is written. It is written, because that is what we are going to do. For many, these two concepts are one and the same. F what one does is what was written, then he is forced to do it because it is written. However, the reality is that once one accepts that Allah know all things, that He is omniscient, then that writing is only an expression of His knowledge of all things, not that He forces things to take place in one's life. There are however, some situations in which Allah intervenes directly which have nothing directly to do with a person's choice. [Bilal Philips].
“Call on Allah in prayer confident that it will be answered. But know that Allah does not answer the prayer of the unmindful, inattentive heart.” (Saheeh Sunan At Tirmidhee)
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