Dhu al-Qarnayn

Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy cites Dhu al-Qarnayn in his teaching on empowerment, as an example of one whom God empowered and who was given the means and followed them. ¹

The Sheikh says that Dhu al-Qarnayn was given a means for everything and followed a means, and describes him as one who took the means, applied them and acted on them; the Sheikh points to the passage in Surat al-Kahf. ³

The Sheikh holds that Dhu al-Qarnayn had knowledge, languages and wide learning, so that he travelled to the east and the west of the earth, and that this was empowerment from God. ²

The Sheikh says that a people complained to him of corruption in the land and asked him to set a barrier between them and those who were corrupting it, and that he built the barrier for them. ^{3 4}