(18:77) So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al-Khidh r restored it. [Moses] said, "If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment." (18:78) [Al-Khidh r] said, "This is parting between me and you. I will inform you of the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience. (18:79) As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force. (18:80) And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. (18:81) So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy. (18:82) And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure for them, and their father had been righteous. So your Lord intended that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. And I did it not of my own accord. That is the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience." (18:83) And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, "I will recite to you about him a report." (18:84) Indeed We established him upon the earth, and We gave him to everything a way. (18:85) So he followed a way (18:86) Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it [as if] setting in a spring of dark mud, and he found near it a people. Allah said, "O Dhul-Qarnayn, either you punish [them] or else adopt among them [a way of] goodness." (18:87) He said, "As for one who wrongs, we will punish him. Then he will be returned to his Lord, and He will punish him with a terrible punishment. (18:88) But as for one who believes and does righteousness, he will have a reward of Paradise, and we will speak to him from our command with ease." (18:89) Then he followed a way (18:90) Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had not made against it any shield. (18:91) Thus. And We had encompassed [all] that he had in knowledge. (18:92) Then he followed a way (18:93) Until, when he reached [a pass] between two mountains, he found beside them a people who could hardly understand [his] speech. (18:94) They said, "O Dhul-Qarnayn, indeed Gog and Magog are [great] corrupters in the land. So may we assign for you an expenditure that you might make between us and them a barrier?" (18:95) He said, "That in which my Lord has established me is better [than what you offer], but assist me with strength; I will make between you and them a dam.
