75 He said: Did I not say to thee that thou couldst not have patience with me? |
76 He said: If I ask thee about anything after this, keep not company with me. Thou wilt then indeed have found an excuse in my case. |
77 So they went on, until, when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to entertain them as guests. Then they found in it a wall which was on the point of falling, so he put it into a right state. (Moses) said: If thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken a recompense for it. |
78 He said: This is the parting between me and thee. Now I will inform thee of the significance of that with which thou couldst not have patience. |
79 As for the boat, it belonged to poor people working on the river, and I intended to damage it, for there was behind them a king who seized every boat by force. |
80 And as for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should involve them in wrongdoing and disbelief. |
81 So we intended that their Lord might give them in his place one better in purity and nearer to mercy. |
82 And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them, and their father had been a righteous man. So thy Lord intended that they should attain their maturity and take out their treasure — a mercy from thy Lord — and I did not do it of my own accord. This is the significance of that with which thou couldst not have patience. |
83 And they ask thee about Dhu-l-qarnain. Say: I will recite to you an account of him. |
84 Truly We established him in the land and granted him means of access to everything; |
85 So he followed a course. |
86 Until, when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it going down into a black sea, and found by it a people. We said: |