Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Kahf, Ayah 14
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Tafsir
And We strengthened their hearts to enable them to speak the truth when they stood up before their king who had commanded them to prostrate to idols and said ‘Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We will not call on any god besides Him that is other than Him for then we shall certainly have uttered an outrage in other words we shall have spoken a statement that contains shatat meaning one of extreme disbelief were we hypothetically to call on any god other than God.
Related Hadiths
In our opinion it means that covenant which Allah had taken in the loins of their fathers when He said : “Am I not your Lord? They said: Yes.
Whenever we went up a place we would say, "Allahu--Akbar (i.e. Allah is Greater)", and whenever we went down a place we would say, "Subhan Allah."
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And We made firm their hearts) We preserved their hearts with faith; it is also said that: We inspired them to hold fast to patience (when they stood forth) when they left the disbelieving emperor Decius (Duqyanus) (and said: Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We cry unto) we worship (no god beside Him, for then should we utter an enormity) for then we would be telling lies and falsehood about Allah.