Question:
Salaam
I was in a cave searching. I found a key. I then had a wooden box in my hand and opened it. In Arabic it said Thaqalayn. There were 3 tubes with a hair in each one. I picked one up and it had Sayyidina Ali RA’s name on the box where the tube lay.
Answer:
wa ‘alaykum salam,
Allah swt says:
وَإِذِ ٱعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا ٱللَّهَ فَأْوُۥٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِۦ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا
{ [The youths said to one another], “And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allah , retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility.”} (Surat al-Kahf, 18:16)
It means once you follow this verse, and seclude yourself in the cave of your heart, away from all distractions of dunya, nafs, hawa and shaytan, then Allah (swt) will grant you a Key from His Divine Grace, and that key will open The Door, who is Sayyidina `Ali (r) and with him, Sayyidina al-Hasan (r) and Sayyidina al-Husayn (r)–as the Prophet (s) said, “I am the city of knowledge and `Ali is its door.” The value of each of them is greater than ath-thaqalayn, jinn and mankind, as “al-Hasan (r) and al-Husayn the Masters of the youths of Paradise.” and their father Sayyidina `Ali (r) is considered the primordial fata, or chivalrous youth – he fought the outward jihad and the inner jihad at one and the same time.
Allahu `aalam.
Aziz Hussein
