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If you aren't thinking of Saudi then UAE is a nice country to visit or stay for Muslims who grew up in the West as it is a wealthy modern Muslim country and there are people from many countries there.

It is far from being a perfect Muslim country, but its a nice place where there are many, many masjids and it is nice to be somewhere where you hear the adhaan from many masjids if you have grown up without it.

Abu Dhabi is very beautiful city to stay but in Sharjah (above Dubai a little) people are nicer and it is a little more religious and if you ever want anything in Dubai it is just down the road.

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although if you want somewhere more authentic why not Morocco?

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Anyway if you wait a little, InshaAllah Syria will be ruled by the Sunnis again soon and it may become the best Muslim country then InshaAllah.

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lol if you are looking somewhere to hide from Dajjal tell me when you find it and I will come too

until tell (and after) then you can recite first and last ten ayat of Surah Kahf every day and think about their meaning, it protects from the trickery of Dajjal InshaAllah

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Question:
In these uncertain days for the Muslims we must prepare ourselves for the fitna of the Dajjal. I have heard that you are to memorise the last ten ayats of Surat al-Kahf but some websites have said that it is the first ten. Can you please clarify whether it is the last or the first ten that should be memorised?
Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalamu alaikum,

The recommendation of reciting both the beginning and ending ten verses of Surat al-Kahf (the 18th sura of the Qur�an) has been transmitted from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). It is also recommended to recite the entire sura on Fridays. [see below]

Imam Mundhiri (Allah have mercy on him) devoted a chapter of his al-Targhib wa�l Tarhib (�Encouragement and Warning�) to this,

� Encouraging reciting Surat Kahf, or Ten Verses from its Beginning or Ten from its End

Abu al-Darda� (Allah be pleased with him) related that the Prophet of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said, �Whoever commits ten verses from the beginning Surat al-Kahf will be protected from the Dajjal.� [Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nasa�i, and others; the wording is Muslim�s]�

In a narration in Muslim and Abu Dawud it states, �From the end of Surat al-Kahf.� Tirmidhi related is with the words, �Whoever recites three verses from the beginning of al-Kahf will be protected from the tribulations of the Dajjal.� [Mundhiri, al-Targhib wa�l Tarhib, #2172-2173]

Imam Shafi`i (Allah have mercy on him) said in his Umm,

�It has reached us that whoever recites Surat al-Kahf on Fridays will be protected from the Dajjal.� [Shafi`i, al-Umm, 1.239]

It is recommended to recite Surat al-Kahf completely the night before Friday, and it is also recommended to do so Friday itself, before Maghrib time. Ibn Abidin said, �And it is best to do so early on Friday, in order to rush to the good and to avoid forgetting.� [Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, �Bab al-Jumu`ah�]

The evidence for it being recommended includes the hadith related by Hakim and Bayhaqi, from Abu Sa`id (Allah be pleased with him), �Whoever recites Surat al-Kahf on Friday, light shall shine forth for him between the two Fridays.� [Ibn Hajar, Talkhis al-Habīr]

The wisdom behind it, as mentioned by hadith commentators such as Nawawi, Qurtubi, Qari, and others, is that:

a) There are tremendous signs and portents mentioned in these verses. However reads these regularly and ponders on their meanings with not be led astray by the Dajjal;

b) The surah as a whole has stories of the struggle between true belief in Allah and the realities of faith, and materialism. Reflecting on any of these

c) It is a secret whose knowledge Allah alone posses, and we have follow it because of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace)�s guidance, with full certainty.

And Allah knows best.

Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani