The Men of Angelos

أصحاب الكهف

Farajollah Salahshour's Iranian series on the People of the Cave — the youths who slept through a pagan empire's persecution; an early Iranian religious drama widely dubbed into Arabic.

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ProphetsWorship and the pillars

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Format
Series · Muslim history or life carries the story
Countries
IR
Languages
fa (original) · ar (dubbed) · ur (dubbed)
Approach
devotional
Titles in other languages
اصحاب کهفThe Men of Angelosأصحاب الكهف

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Features
Jafar Dehghan· Jahanbakhsh Soltani· Homa Khakpash· Majid Abdol-Azizi
Directed by
Farajullah Salahshur
Broadcast by
IRIB TV1

People and things also explored

The three years of the secret call· The Isra and Mi'raj· al-Amin, the Trustworthy (the Prophet's title before his mission)· Prayer in early Islam before the Night Journey· Command, prohibition and capacity· The days of Tashriq· The five pillars of Islam· The lawful, the unlawful and the doubtful

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  • elCinema
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islam.museum contributors. “The Men of Angelos”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/ashab-al-kahf-1997/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The three years of the secret call

The first stage of the call to Islam — individual and secret for three years — in which the first band believed: Khadija, Ali, Zayd and Abu Bakr on the first day, then those whom Abu Bakr called, then a company Ibn Hisham numbers at over forty from every clan of Quraysh; during it prayer was first prescribed.