Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran: Difference between revisions

While attempting to buy bread in town, Malchus is detained by town folk who are amazed that he has an ancient coin in his possession. He is fearful that the emperor and the town folk are pagans who will punish him. In the Qur'anic story, a companion warns the other to avoid capture out of fear that he will be forced back into polytheism.<ref>The mainstream Islamic position concerning the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is that it constitutes an act of ''shirk'' (the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism). So, in the context of this surah (see: {{Quran|18|4}}), polytheism refers to mainstream Christianity.</ref>