Some lessons arrive wrapped in puzzles. The meeting of Moses and Khizr is one of them.

In Al Kahf 18:61, a great prophet sets out to learn from a servant of God who has been given special knowledge. Along the way Khizr does things that look wrong. A boat is damaged. A boy is killed. A wall is repaired for people who refused hospitality. Moses cannot stay silent, and each time his objection seems fair. Each time the explanation comes later, and it changes everything. The damaged boat escapes a tyrant. The boy’s death spares his parents a greater grief. The wall protects a treasure that belongs to two orphans.

The point is simple. When one with full knowledge acts in ways we cannot follow, our limited view is not the measure of the matter. We see a moment. He sees the whole. If the explanation has not come yet, the right response is patience, and prayer for understanding.

The Quran describes this attitude in its own words.

Wa mā yaʿlamu taʾwīlahū illā Allāh, war-rāsikhūna fil-ʿilmi yaqūlūna āmannā bihī kullun min ʿindi rabbinā, wa mā yadhdhakkaru illā ulul-albāb: And none knows its right interpretation except Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge; they say, ‘We believe in it; the whole is from our Lord.’ And none heed except those gifted with understanding. (Aal-e-Imran 3:8)

Notice that those firmly grounded in knowledge do not claim to have every answer. They say they believe, and that the whole is from their Lord. Their depth shows in their humility.

So the next time life seems to make no sense, we might ask a gentler question than why. Could this be a boat, a boy, or a wall whose reason has not yet been shown to me? Remember patience before Divine Wisdom. Trust The One who sees the whole picture and Who will reveal the reasons in due time. Wait with faith and prayer rather than judging what we cannot yet understand.