Bits and Pieces

 There are times that makes us realize that every story in the Quran isn't just  story. There were times when I used to think it's weird that the Quran always have the stories in bits and pieces, and not in continuation. Why would the Best Author write it that way? It didn't really make sense. And there are times when some details are just left out, like for how many people actually slept in the cave in Surah Al-Kahf. It's as though Allah tells us that those aren't important, the point of the story was something else. 

As you grow older, you kinda realize that the stories aren't just stories, it's real life. Every character is real, and every Prophet(as) was a reference and every character, they encountered are people you will encounter. And every bits and pieces of their lives that were mentioned, are the incidents that we will encounter in our lives too, in just different ways, but the core of it is the same.

When Ibrahim(as) understood that God can't be created and is powerful, he challenged his father about his beliefs. And this was a common incident in the lives of the other Prophets too, when they started to spread the message. The most common reaction they received from their family, society was "Are you telling that our forefathers and those before us were wrong? And what knowledge is it that you have gotten that none of us had been given?"  

Many times in our lives, we come across situations where practicing Islam pushes us out of our comfort zones, to what society is used to, to what was common culturally, and in all of those circumstances we come across the exact same situations, where society mocks us, calls us mad, challenges and asks us "Out of all the people is it to just you that God had suddenly given wisdom?". And they ask us "This is how we have been living our lives and this is how our forefathers lived. So are you saying that all of us were wrong?" 

Perhaps why, Allah chose to keep their opinions and what the disbelievers voiced out, in His revelation, not once or twice but again and again, repeatedly.