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  "slug": "kahf",
  "name": "Al-Kahf",
  "arabicName": "الكهف",
  "meaning": "The Cave",
  "period": "Makkan",
  "juz": 15,
  "tagline": "Refuge, knowledge, and the limits of power",
  "overview": "Young believers find refuge, a garden owner mistakes wealth for permanence, Moses journeys to learn, and Dhul-Qarnayn uses power to protect. Across these stories, the chapter asks where security belongs and how human knowledge should remain humble.",
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      "title": "Chapter introduction · Quran.com",
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      "title": "Hijrah year · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
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      "title": "The apparent sunset · Ibn Kathir",
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  "juzEnd": 16,
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 8,
      "title": "A straight message in a passing world",
      "summary": "Revelation brings warning and good news while earthly beauty is placed within a test of conduct.",
      "reflection": "What deserves lasting trust when the world’s ornaments can disappear?"
    },
    {
      "start": 9,
      "end": 26,
      "title": "The young people of the cave",
      "summary": "Refuge, protected sleep, awakening, and discovery become signs, while speculation about numbers is restrained.",
      "reflection": "Can the story’s guidance remain central when its location and many details remain unknown?"
    },
    {
      "start": 27,
      "end": 44,
      "title": "Companionship and the two gardens",
      "summary": "Sincere company is preferred to display, and a prosperous garden becomes a test of gratitude.",
      "reflection": "When does appreciation of a gift become a claim of superiority?"
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    {
      "start": 45,
      "end": 59,
      "title": "What endures after the harvest",
      "summary": "Passing vegetation, enduring deeds, the record of actions, and the call to repentance widen the lesson.",
      "reflection": "Which actions retain their value when possessions and public standing fall away?"
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    {
      "start": 60,
      "end": 70,
      "title": "Moses sets out to learn",
      "summary": "A journey, a forgotten fish, and a respectful request introduce an encounter with knowledge beyond Moses’ present view.",
      "reflection": "How can determination and humility belong to the same search?"
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    {
      "start": 71,
      "end": 82,
      "title": "Three difficult events, three explanations",
      "summary": "A damaged boat, a slain boy, and a repaired wall receive explanations within an exceptional revealed encounter.",
      "reflection": "Notice both Moses’ moral questions and the statement that the teacher did not act on personal command."
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    {
      "start": 83,
      "end": 110,
      "title": "Power, protection, and an ocean of words",
      "summary": "Dhul-Qarnayn travels and builds a barrier; final judgment and the inexhaustibility of divine knowledge close the chapter.",
      "reflection": "How can effective action remain grateful and aware of its limits?"
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    {
      "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification",
      "year": 622,
      "body": "The Makkan classification places the chapter broadly before the Hijrah to Madinah in 622 CE. This marker is a period boundary, not a claimed year or date of revelation. Classification details and any disputed passages are explained in History.",
      "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
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    {
      "title": "The cave’s duration · no calendar anchor",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 25–26 give a duration and return ultimate knowledge to God. No named emperor, absolute starting year, or verified modern cave is supplied by the text.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm"
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    {
      "title": "Moses and Khidr · an undated encounter",
      "year": null,
      "body": "The Quran names Moses but not his teacher. Sahih al-Bukhari 122 calls the teacher Khidr and identifies Moses’ companion as Yusha ibn Nun. The report does not establish a modern route map.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:122"
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    {
      "title": "Dhul-Qarnayn’s journeys · identity unspecified",
      "year": null,
      "body": "The Quran presents a ruler’s travels, judgments, and protective work without naming a dynasty. This reader does not select an ancient ruler, ethnicity for Gog and Magog, or surviving wall as a proven identification.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm"
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      "id": "kahf-cave",
      "name": "The cave · location not established",
      "body": "The narrative describes sunlight, an entrance, sleepers, and a nearby town. It provides no place name. The illustration is an imagined refuge, not documentation of a claimed tomb or authenticated cave.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm",
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    {
      "id": "kahf-waters",
      "name": "The meeting of two waters · unlocated",
      "body": "Moses travels to this meeting point and retraces his steps after the fish is remembered. Neither the Quranic account nor the cited report provides coordinates sufficient to establish a modern location.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:122",
      "image": 4
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    {
      "id": "kahf-barrier",
      "name": "The mountain barrier · unlocated",
      "body": "Iron, heat, and molten copper appear in the construction account. The text does not establish that any particular surviving fortification is this barrier. The scene illustrates protection and cooperation rather than a verified archaeological reconstruction.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm",
      "image": 6
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  "people": [
    {
      "id": "cave-youths",
      "title": "The young believers",
      "body": "Their names are not given. Faith, courage, mutual care, and a prayer for right direction define them. The chapter itself checks excessive debate over their number, so their guidance takes priority over confident reconstruction.",
      "verse": 10,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm",
      "label": "Character and context"
    },
    {
      "id": "garden-owner",
      "title": "The garden owner and his companion",
      "body": "The two men are unnamed within a parable about abundance, comparison, gratitude, and loss. They need no invented portraits or biography for the difference between their outlooks to become clear.",
      "verse": 32,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm",
      "label": "Character and context"
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    {
      "id": "moses-khidr",
      "title": "Moses and the servant called Khidr",
      "body": "Moses seeks learning and questions alarming acts. The Quran leaves the teacher unnamed; Sahih al-Bukhari 122 names him Khidr. The exceptional knowledge in the account gives no ordinary person permission to harm an innocent child on speculation.",
      "verse": 65,
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:122",
      "label": "Character and context"
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    {
      "id": "dhul-qarnayn",
      "title": "Dhul-Qarnayn · a title, not a settled identity",
      "body": "The Quran supplies selected actions, not a birth name or dynasty. He acknowledges divine mercy while using practical means to protect a community. The account remains meaningful without identifying him with a particular historical conqueror.",
      "verse": 83,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/018.htm",
      "label": "Character and context"
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    {
      "title": "Makkan classification and reported questions",
      "body": "The chapter introduction classifies Al-Kahf as Makkan. It relates a traditional account of questions posed to test the messenger. Exact intervals and an absolute revelation year are not treated here as securely established.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/18/info"
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    {
      "title": "Quranic wording and transmitted names",
      "body": "Sahih al-Bukhari 122 expands the Moses encounter and names Khidr and the young companion. These names are identified as transmitted details, while the base translation retains the Quran’s own level of specificity.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:122"
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    {
      "title": "The sunset as it appeared",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir explains the western sunset as the traveler’s visual experience, comparable to seeing the sun set into the sea. The explanation does not describe the sun physically entering a terrestrial spring.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/18:86/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
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    {
      "title": "A boundary between two juz",
      "body": "Al-Kahf begins in Juz 15; verse 75 begins Juz 16. This reading division is distinct from the seven thematic passages used in this edition.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/18/75"
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  "revelationNote": "Makkan by the standard chapter classification. Reports about testing questions provide interpretive context without fixing a certain date. The cave, meeting waters, and barrier are left geographically unverified. Juz 16 starts at 18:75; the chapter begins in Juz 15.",
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    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنزَلَ عَلَىٰ عَبْدِهِ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَلَمْ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عِوَجَا ۜ",
      "translation": "[All] praise is [due] to Allah, who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "قَيِّمًۭا لِّيُنذِرَ بَأْسًۭا شَدِيدًۭا مِّن لَّدُنْهُ وَيُبَشِّرَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا حَسَنًۭا",
      "translation": "[He has made it] straight, to warn of severe punishment from Him and to give good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a good reward"
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "مَّٰكِثِينَ فِيهِ أَبَدًۭا",
      "translation": "In which they will remain forever"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "وَيُنذِرَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱللَّهُ وَلَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And to warn those who say, \"Allah has taken a son.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "مَّا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ عِلْمٍۢ وَلَا لِءَابَآئِهِمْ ۚ كَبُرَتْ كَلِمَةًۭ تَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ ۚ إِن يَقُولُونَ إِلَّا كَذِبًۭا",
      "translation": "They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "فَلَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٌۭ نَّفْسَكَ عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِمْ إِن لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَسَفًا",
      "translation": "Then perhaps you would kill yourself through grief over them, [O Muhammad], if they do not believe in this message, [and] out of sorrow."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا مَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ زِينَةًۭ لَّهَا لِنَبْلُوَهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًۭا",
      "translation": "Indeed, We have made that which is on the earth adornment for it that We may test them [as to] which of them is best in deed."
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "وَإِنَّا لَجَٰعِلُونَ مَا عَلَيْهَا صَعِيدًۭا جُرُزًا",
      "translation": "And indeed, We will make that which is upon it [into] a barren ground."
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "أَمْ حَسِبْتَ أَنَّ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْكَهْفِ وَٱلرَّقِيمِ كَانُوا۟ مِنْ ءَايَٰتِنَا عَجَبًا",
      "translation": "Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder?"
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "إِذْ أَوَى ٱلْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى ٱلْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَآ ءَاتِنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةًۭ وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًۭا",
      "translation": "[Mention] when the youths retreated to the cave and said, \"Our Lord, grant us from Yourself mercy and prepare for us from our affair right guidance.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ فِى ٱلْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًۭا",
      "translation": "So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years."
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَٰهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ أَىُّ ٱلْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَىٰ لِمَا لَبِثُوٓا۟ أَمَدًۭا",
      "translation": "Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time."
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "نَّحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ نَبَأَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ فِتْيَةٌ ءَامَنُوا۟ بِرَبِّهِمْ وَزِدْنَٰهُمْ هُدًۭى",
      "translation": "It is We who relate to you, [O Muhammad], their story in truth. Indeed, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance."
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "وَرَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ إِذْ قَامُوا۟ فَقَالُوا۟ رَبُّنَا رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ لَن نَّدْعُوَا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِلَٰهًۭا ۖ لَّقَدْ قُلْنَآ إِذًۭا شَطَطًا",
      "translation": "And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, \"Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression."
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ قَوْمُنَا ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةًۭ ۖ لَّوْلَا يَأْتُونَ عَلَيْهِم بِسُلْطَٰنٍۭ بَيِّنٍۢ ۖ فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ ٱفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًۭا",
      "translation": "These, our people, have taken besides Him deities. Why do they not bring for [worship of] them a clear authority? And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "وَإِذِ ٱعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا ٱللَّهَ فَأْوُۥٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِۦ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًۭا",
      "translation": "[The youths said to one another], \"And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allah, retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "۞ وَتَرَى ٱلشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَٰوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِى فَجْوَةٍۢ مِّنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ مَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُۥ وَلِيًّۭا مُّرْشِدًۭا",
      "translation": "And [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [laying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allah. He whom Allah guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He leaves astray - never will you find for him a protecting guide."
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "وَتَحْسَبُهُمْ أَيْقَاظًۭا وَهُمْ رُقُودٌۭ ۚ وَنُقَلِّبُهُمْ ذَاتَ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَذَاتَ ٱلشِّمَالِ ۖ وَكَلْبُهُم بَٰسِطٌۭ ذِرَاعَيْهِ بِٱلْوَصِيدِ ۚ لَوِ ٱطَّلَعْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَوَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرَارًۭا وَلَمُلِئْتَ مِنْهُمْ رُعْبًۭا",
      "translation": "And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog stretched his forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror."
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "وَكَذَٰلِكَ بَعَثْنَٰهُمْ لِيَتَسَآءَلُوا۟ بَيْنَهُمْ ۚ قَالَ قَآئِلٌۭ مِّنْهُمْ كَمْ لَبِثْتُمْ ۖ قَالُوا۟ لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍۢ ۚ قَالُوا۟ رَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا لَبِثْتُمْ فَٱبْعَثُوٓا۟ أَحَدَكُم بِوَرِقِكُمْ هَٰذِهِۦٓ إِلَى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ فَلْيَنظُرْ أَيُّهَآ أَزْكَىٰ طَعَامًۭا فَلْيَأْتِكُم بِرِزْقٍۢ مِّنْهُ وَلْيَتَلَطَّفْ وَلَا يُشْعِرَنَّ بِكُمْ أَحَدًا",
      "translation": "And similarly, We awakened them that they might question one another. Said a speaker from among them, \"How long have you remained [here]?\" They said, \"We have remained a day or part of a day.\" They said, \"Your Lord is most knowing of how long you remained. So send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city and let him look to which is the best of food and bring you provision from it and let him be cautious. And let no one be aware of you."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "إِنَّهُمْ إِن يَظْهَرُوا۟ عَلَيْكُمْ يَرْجُمُوكُمْ أَوْ يُعِيدُوكُمْ فِى مِلَّتِهِمْ وَلَن تُفْلِحُوٓا۟ إِذًا أَبَدًۭا",
      "translation": "Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or return you to their religion. And never would you succeed, then - ever.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "وَكَذَٰلِكَ أَعْثَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّۭ وَأَنَّ ٱلسَّاعَةَ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهَآ إِذْ يَتَنَٰزَعُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ أَمْرَهُمْ ۖ فَقَالُوا۟ ٱبْنُوا۟ عَلَيْهِم بُنْيَٰنًۭا ۖ رَّبُّهُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِهِمْ ۚ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ غَلَبُوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَمْرِهِمْ لَنَتَّخِذَنَّ عَلَيْهِم مَّسْجِدًۭا",
      "translation": "And similarly, We caused them to be found that they [who found them] would know that the promise of Allah is truth and that of the Hour there is no doubt. [That was] when they disputed among themselves about their affair and [then] said, \"Construct over them a structure. Their Lord is most knowing about them.\" Said those who prevailed in the matter, \"We will surely take [for ourselves] over them a masjid.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "سَيَقُولُونَ ثَلَٰثَةٌۭ رَّابِعُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ خَمْسَةٌۭ سَادِسُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ رَجْمًۢا بِٱلْغَيْبِ ۖ وَيَقُولُونَ سَبْعَةٌۭ وَثَامِنُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ ۚ قُل رَّبِّىٓ أَعْلَمُ بِعِدَّتِهِم مَّا يَعْلَمُهُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌۭ ۗ فَلَا تُمَارِ فِيهِمْ إِلَّا مِرَآءًۭ ظَٰهِرًۭا وَلَا تَسْتَفْتِ فِيهِم مِّنْهُمْ أَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "They will say there were three, the fourth of them being their dog; and they will say there were five, the sixth of them being their dog - guessing at the unseen; and they will say there were seven, and the eighth of them was their dog. Say, [O Muhammad], \"My Lord is most knowing of their number. None knows them except a few. So do not argue about them except with an obvious argument and do not inquire about them among [the speculators] from anyone.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 23,
      "arabic": "وَلَا تَقُولَنَّ لِشَا۟ىْءٍ إِنِّى فَاعِلٌۭ ذَٰلِكَ غَدًا",
      "translation": "And never say of anything, \"Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,\""
    },
    {
      "n": 24,
      "arabic": "إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ وَٱذْكُر رَّبَّكَ إِذَا نَسِيتَ وَقُلْ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَهْدِيَنِ رَبِّى لِأَقْرَبَ مِنْ هَٰذَا رَشَدًۭا",
      "translation": "Except [when adding], \"If Allah wills.\" And remember your Lord when you forget [it] and say, \"Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to right conduct.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "arabic": "وَلَبِثُوا۟ فِى كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَٰثَ مِا۟ئَةٍۢ سِنِينَ وَٱزْدَادُوا۟ تِسْعًۭا",
      "translation": "And they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine."
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "arabic": "قُلِ ٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا لَبِثُوا۟ ۖ لَهُۥ غَيْبُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ أَبْصِرْ بِهِۦ وَأَسْمِعْ ۚ مَا لَهُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ مِن وَلِىٍّۢ وَلَا يُشْرِكُ فِى حُكْمِهِۦٓ أَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "Say, \"Allah is most knowing of how long they remained. He has [knowledge of] the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth. How Seeing is He and how Hearing! They have not besides Him any protector, and He shares not His legislation with anyone.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 27,
      "arabic": "وَٱتْلُ مَآ أُوحِىَ إِلَيْكَ مِن كِتَابِ رَبِّكَ ۖ لَا مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِمَٰتِهِۦ وَلَن تَجِدَ مِن دُونِهِۦ مُلْتَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And recite, [O Muhammad], what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord. There is no changer of His words, and never will you find in other than Him a refuge."
    },
    {
      "n": 28,
      "arabic": "وَٱصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُم بِٱلْغَدَوٰةِ وَٱلْعَشِىِّ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَهُۥ ۖ وَلَا تَعْدُ عَيْنَاكَ عَنْهُمْ تُرِيدُ زِينَةَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُۥ عَن ذِكْرِنَا وَٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُ وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُۥ فُرُطًۭا",
      "translation": "And keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His countenance. And let not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is ever [in] neglect."
    },
    {
      "n": 29,
      "arabic": "وَقُلِ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيُؤْمِن وَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْ ۚ إِنَّآ أَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ نَارًا أَحَاطَ بِهِمْ سُرَادِقُهَا ۚ وَإِن يَسْتَغِيثُوا۟ يُغَاثُوا۟ بِمَآءٍۢ كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَشْوِى ٱلْوُجُوهَ ۚ بِئْسَ ٱلشَّرَابُ وَسَآءَتْ مُرْتَفَقًا",
      "translation": "And say, \"The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve.\" Indeed, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire whose walls will surround them. And if they call for relief, they will be relieved with water like murky oil, which scalds [their] faces. Wretched is the drink, and evil is the resting place."
    },
    {
      "n": 30,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ إِنَّا لَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ مَنْ أَحْسَنَ عَمَلًا",
      "translation": "Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds."
    },
    {
      "n": 31,
      "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ جَنَّٰتُ عَدْنٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهِمُ ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ يُحَلَّوْنَ فِيهَا مِنْ أَسَاوِرَ مِن ذَهَبٍۢ وَيَلْبَسُونَ ثِيَابًا خُضْرًۭا مِّن سُندُسٍۢ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍۢ مُّتَّكِـِٔينَ فِيهَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ ۚ نِعْمَ ٱلثَّوَابُ وَحَسُنَتْ مُرْتَفَقًۭا",
      "translation": "Those will have gardens of perpetual residence; beneath them rivers will flow. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and will wear green garments of fine silk and brocade, reclining therein on adorned couches. Excellent is the reward, and good is the resting place."
    },
    {
      "n": 32,
      "arabic": "۞ وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلًۭا رَّجُلَيْنِ جَعَلْنَا لِأَحَدِهِمَا جَنَّتَيْنِ مِنْ أَعْنَٰبٍۢ وَحَفَفْنَٰهُمَا بِنَخْلٍۢ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمَا زَرْعًۭا",
      "translation": "And present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops."
    },
    {
      "n": 33,
      "arabic": "كِلْتَا ٱلْجَنَّتَيْنِ ءَاتَتْ أُكُلَهَا وَلَمْ تَظْلِم مِّنْهُ شَيْـًۭٔا ۚ وَفَجَّرْنَا خِلَٰلَهُمَا نَهَرًۭا",
      "translation": "Each of the two gardens produced its fruit and did not fall short thereof in anything. And We caused to gush forth within them a river."
    },
    {
      "n": 34,
      "arabic": "وَكَانَ لَهُۥ ثَمَرٌۭ فَقَالَ لِصَٰحِبِهِۦ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُۥٓ أَنَا۠ أَكْثَرُ مِنكَ مَالًۭا وَأَعَزُّ نَفَرًۭا",
      "translation": "And he had fruit, so he said to his companion while he was conversing with him, \"I am greater than you in wealth and mightier in [numbers of] men.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 35,
      "arabic": "وَدَخَلَ جَنَّتَهُۥ وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌۭ لِّنَفْسِهِۦ قَالَ مَآ أَظُنُّ أَن تَبِيدَ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أَبَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And he entered his garden while he was unjust to himself. He said, \"I do not think that this will perish - ever."
    },
    {
      "n": 36,
      "arabic": "وَمَآ أَظُنُّ ٱلسَّاعَةَ قَآئِمَةًۭ وَلَئِن رُّدِدتُّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّى لَأَجِدَنَّ خَيْرًۭا مِّنْهَا مُنقَلَبًۭا",
      "translation": "And I do not think the Hour will occur. And even if I should be brought back to my Lord, I will surely find better than this as a return.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 37,
      "arabic": "قَالَ لَهُۥ صَاحِبُهُۥ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُۥٓ أَكَفَرْتَ بِٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكَ مِن تُرَابٍۢ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍۢ ثُمَّ سَوَّىٰكَ رَجُلًۭا",
      "translation": "His companion said to him while he was conversing with him, \"Have you disbelieved in He who created you from dust and then from a sperm-drop and then proportioned you [as] a man?"
    },
    {
      "n": 38,
      "arabic": "لَّٰكِنَّا۠ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ رَبِّى وَلَآ أُشْرِكُ بِرَبِّىٓ أَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "But as for me, He is Allah, my Lord, and I do not associate with my Lord anyone."
    },
    {
      "n": 39,
      "arabic": "وَلَوْلَآ إِذْ دَخَلْتَ جَنَّتَكَ قُلْتَ مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللَّهِ ۚ إِن تَرَنِ أَنَا۠ أَقَلَّ مِنكَ مَالًۭا وَوَلَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And why did you, when you entered your garden, not say, 'What Allah willed [has occurred]; there is no power except in Allah '? Although you see me less than you in wealth and children,"
    },
    {
      "n": 40,
      "arabic": "فَعَسَىٰ رَبِّىٓ أَن يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْرًۭا مِّن جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَانًۭا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًۭا زَلَقًا",
      "translation": "It may be that my Lord will give me [something] better than your garden and will send upon it a calamity from the sky, and it will become a smooth, dusty ground,"
    },
    {
      "n": 41,
      "arabic": "أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَآؤُهَا غَوْرًۭا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُۥ طَلَبًۭا",
      "translation": "Or its water will become sunken [into the earth], so you would never be able to seek it.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 42,
      "arabic": "وَأُحِيطَ بِثَمَرِهِۦ فَأَصْبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَىٰ مَآ أَنفَقَ فِيهَا وَهِىَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَىٰ عُرُوشِهَا وَيَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِرَبِّىٓ أَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And his fruits were encompassed [by ruin], so he began to turn his hands about [in dismay] over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises, and said, \"Oh, I wish I had not associated with my Lord anyone.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 43,
      "arabic": "وَلَمْ تَكُن لَّهُۥ فِئَةٌۭ يَنصُرُونَهُۥ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا كَانَ مُنتَصِرًا",
      "translation": "And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allah, nor could he defend himself."
    },
    {
      "n": 44,
      "arabic": "هُنَالِكَ ٱلْوَلَٰيَةُ لِلَّهِ ٱلْحَقِّ ۚ هُوَ خَيْرٌۭ ثَوَابًۭا وَخَيْرٌ عُقْبًۭا",
      "translation": "There the authority is [completely] for Allah, the Truth. He is best in reward and best in outcome."
    },
    {
      "n": 45,
      "arabic": "وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا كَمَآءٍ أَنزَلْنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَٱخْتَلَطَ بِهِۦ نَبَاتُ ٱلْأَرْضِ فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًۭا تَذْرُوهُ ٱلرِّيَٰحُ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ مُّقْتَدِرًا",
      "translation": "And present to them the example of the life of this world, [its being] like rain which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it and [then] it becomes dry remnants, scattered by the winds. And Allah is ever, over all things, Perfect in Ability."
    },
    {
      "n": 46,
      "arabic": "ٱلْمَالُ وَٱلْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَٱلْبَٰقِيَٰتُ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًۭا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًۭا",
      "translation": "Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better for [one's] hope."
    },
    {
      "n": 47,
      "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ نُسَيِّرُ ٱلْجِبَالَ وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ بَارِزَةًۭ وَحَشَرْنَٰهُمْ فَلَمْ نُغَادِرْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And [warn of] the Day when We will remove the mountains and you will see the earth prominent, and We will gather them and not leave behind from them anyone."
    },
    {
      "n": 48,
      "arabic": "وَعُرِضُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ صَفًّۭا لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا كَمَا خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍۭ ۚ بَلْ زَعَمْتُمْ أَلَّن نَّجْعَلَ لَكُم مَّوْعِدًۭا",
      "translation": "And they will be presented before your Lord in rows, [and He will say], \"You have certainly come to Us just as We created you the first time. But you claimed that We would never make for you an appointment.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 49,
      "arabic": "وَوُضِعَ ٱلْكِتَٰبُ فَتَرَى ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يَٰوَيْلَتَنَا مَالِ هَٰذَا ٱلْكِتَٰبِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةًۭ وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّآ أَحْصَىٰهَا ۚ وَوَجَدُوا۟ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ حَاضِرًۭا ۗ وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And the record [of deeds] will be placed [open], and you will see the criminals fearful of that within it, and they will say, \"Oh, woe to us! What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?\" And they will find what they did present [before them]. And your Lord does injustice to no one."
    },
    {
      "n": 50,
      "arabic": "وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ ٱسْجُدُوا۟ لِءَادَمَ فَسَجَدُوٓا۟ إِلَّآ إِبْلِيسَ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْجِنِّ فَفَسَقَ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِۦٓ ۗ أَفَتَتَّخِذُونَهُۥ وَذُرِّيَّتَهُۥٓ أَوْلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِى وَهُمْ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّۢ ۚ بِئْسَ لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ بَدَلًۭا",
      "translation": "And [mention] when We said to the angels, \"Prostrate to Adam,\" and they prostrated, except for Iblees. He was of the jinn and departed from the command of his Lord. Then will you take him and his descendants as allies other than Me while they are enemies to you? Wretched it is for the wrongdoers as an exchange."
    },
    {
      "n": 51,
      "arabic": "۞ مَّآ أَشْهَدتُّهُمْ خَلْقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَا خَلْقَ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَمَا كُنتُ مُتَّخِذَ ٱلْمُضِلِّينَ عَضُدًۭا",
      "translation": "I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves, and I would not have taken the misguiders as assistants."
    },
    {
      "n": 52,
      "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ نَادُوا۟ شُرَكَآءِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لَهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُم مَّوْبِقًۭا",
      "translation": "And [warn of] the Day when He will say, \"Call 'My partners' whom you claimed,\" and they will invoke them, but they will not respond to them. And We will put between them [a valley of] destruction."
    },
    {
      "n": 53,
      "arabic": "وَرَءَا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ ٱلنَّارَ فَظَنُّوٓا۟ أَنَّهُم مُّوَاقِعُوهَا وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا۟ عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًۭا",
      "translation": "And the criminals will see the Fire and will be certain that they are to fall therein. And they will not find from it a way elsewhere."
    },
    {
      "n": 54,
      "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِى هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍۢ ۚ وَكَانَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَكْثَرَ شَىْءٍۢ جَدَلًۭا",
      "translation": "And We have certainly diversified in this Qur'an for the people from every [kind of] example; but man has ever been, most of anything, [prone to] dispute."
    },
    {
      "n": 55,
      "arabic": "وَمَا مَنَعَ ٱلنَّاسَ أَن يُؤْمِنُوٓا۟ إِذْ جَآءَهُمُ ٱلْهُدَىٰ وَيَسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّهُمْ إِلَّآ أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ سُنَّةُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ أَوْ يَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ قُبُلًۭا",
      "translation": "And nothing has prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord except that there [must] befall them the [accustomed] precedent of the former peoples or that the punishment should come [directly] before them."
    },
    {
      "n": 56,
      "arabic": "وَمَا نُرْسِلُ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ ۚ وَيُجَٰدِلُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِٱلْبَٰطِلِ لِيُدْحِضُوا۟ بِهِ ٱلْحَقَّ ۖ وَٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ءَايَٰتِى وَمَآ أُنذِرُوا۟ هُزُوًۭا",
      "translation": "And We send not the messengers except as bringers of good tidings and warners. And those who disbelieve dispute by [using] falsehood to [attempt to] invalidate thereby the truth and have taken My verses, and that of which they are warned, in ridicule."
    },
    {
      "n": 57,
      "arabic": "وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّن ذُكِّرَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِۦ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا وَنَسِىَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ ۚ إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً أَن يَفْقَهُوهُ وَفِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَقْرًۭا ۖ وَإِن تَدْعُهُمْ إِلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰ فَلَن يَهْتَدُوٓا۟ إِذًا أَبَدًۭا",
      "translation": "And who is more unjust than one who is reminded of the verses of his Lord but turns away from them and forgets what his hands have put forth? Indeed, We have placed over their hearts coverings, lest they understand it, and in their ears deafness. And if you invite them to guidance - they will never be guided, then - ever."
    },
    {
      "n": 58,
      "arabic": "وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ذُو ٱلرَّحْمَةِ ۖ لَوْ يُؤَاخِذُهُم بِمَا كَسَبُوا۟ لَعَجَّلَ لَهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ۚ بَل لَّهُم مَّوْعِدٌۭ لَّن يَجِدُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦ مَوْئِلًۭا",
      "translation": "And your Lord is the Forgiving, full of mercy. If He were to impose blame upon them for what they earned, He would have hastened for them the punishment. Rather, for them is an appointment from which they will never find an escape."
    },
    {
      "n": 59,
      "arabic": "وَتِلْكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ لَمَّا ظَلَمُوا۟ وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِم مَّوْعِدًۭا",
      "translation": "And those cities - We destroyed them when they wronged, and We made for their destruction an appointed time."
    },
    {
      "n": 60,
      "arabic": "وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِفَتَىٰهُ لَآ أَبْرَحُ حَتَّىٰٓ أَبْلُغَ مَجْمَعَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ أَوْ أَمْضِىَ حُقُبًۭا",
      "translation": "And [mention] when Moses said to his servant, \"I will not cease [traveling] until I reach the junction of the two seas or continue for a long period.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 61,
      "arabic": "فَلَمَّا بَلَغَا مَجْمَعَ بَيْنِهِمَا نَسِيَا حُوتَهُمَا فَٱتَّخَذَ سَبِيلَهُۥ فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ سَرَبًۭا",
      "translation": "But when they reached the junction between them, they forgot their fish, and it took its course into the sea, slipping away."
    },
    {
      "n": 62,
      "arabic": "فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَا قَالَ لِفَتَىٰهُ ءَاتِنَا غَدَآءَنَا لَقَدْ لَقِينَا مِن سَفَرِنَا هَٰذَا نَصَبًۭا",
      "translation": "So when they had passed beyond it, [Moses] said to his boy, \"Bring us our morning meal. We have certainly suffered in this, our journey, [much] fatigue.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 63,
      "arabic": "قَالَ أَرَءَيْتَ إِذْ أَوَيْنَآ إِلَى ٱلصَّخْرَةِ فَإِنِّى نَسِيتُ ٱلْحُوتَ وَمَآ أَنسَىٰنِيهُ إِلَّا ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ أَنْ أَذْكُرَهُۥ ۚ وَٱتَّخَذَ سَبِيلَهُۥ فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ عَجَبًۭا",
      "translation": "He said, \"Did you see when we retired to the rock? Indeed, I forgot [there] the fish. And none made me forget it except Satan - that I should mention it. And it took its course into the sea amazingly\"."
    },
    {
      "n": 64,
      "arabic": "قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنَّا نَبْغِ ۚ فَٱرْتَدَّا عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَارِهِمَا قَصَصًۭا",
      "translation": "[Moses] said, \"That is what we were seeking.\" So they returned, following their footprints."
    },
    {
      "n": 65,
      "arabic": "فَوَجَدَا عَبْدًۭا مِّنْ عِبَادِنَآ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُ رَحْمَةًۭ مِّنْ عِندِنَا وَعَلَّمْنَٰهُ مِن لَّدُنَّا عِلْمًۭا",
      "translation": "And they found a servant from among Our servants to whom we had given mercy from us and had taught him from Us a [certain] knowledge."
    },
    {
      "n": 66,
      "arabic": "قَالَ لَهُۥ مُوسَىٰ هَلْ أَتَّبِعُكَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن تُعَلِّمَنِ مِمَّا عُلِّمْتَ رُشْدًۭا",
      "translation": "Moses said to him, \"May I follow you on [the condition] that you teach me from what you have been taught of sound judgement?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 67,
      "arabic": "قَالَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًۭا",
      "translation": "He said, \"Indeed, with me you will never be able to have patience."
    },
    {
      "n": 68,
      "arabic": "وَكَيْفَ تَصْبِرُ عَلَىٰ مَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِۦ خُبْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 69,
      "arabic": "قَالَ سَتَجِدُنِىٓ إِن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ صَابِرًۭا وَلَآ أَعْصِى لَكَ أَمْرًۭا",
      "translation": "[Moses] said, \"You will find me, if Allah wills, patient, and I will not disobey you in [any] order.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 70,
      "arabic": "قَالَ فَإِنِ ٱتَّبَعْتَنِى فَلَا تَسْـَٔلْنِى عَن شَىْءٍ حَتَّىٰٓ أُحْدِثَ لَكَ مِنْهُ ذِكْرًۭا",
      "translation": "He said, \"Then if you follow me, do not ask me about anything until I make to you about it mention.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 71,
      "arabic": "فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا رَكِبَا فِى ٱلسَّفِينَةِ خَرَقَهَا ۖ قَالَ أَخَرَقْتَهَا لِتُغْرِقَ أَهْلَهَا لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْـًٔا إِمْرًۭا",
      "translation": "So they set out, until when they had embarked on the ship, al-Khidh r tore it open. [Moses] said, \"Have you torn it open to drown its people? You have certainly done a grave thing.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 72,
      "arabic": "قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًۭا",
      "translation": "[Al-Khidh r] said, \"Did I not say that with me you would never be able to have patience?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 73,
      "arabic": "قَالَ لَا تُؤَاخِذْنِى بِمَا نَسِيتُ وَلَا تُرْهِقْنِى مِنْ أَمْرِى عُسْرًۭا",
      "translation": "[Moses] said, \"Do not blame me for what I forgot and do not cover me in my matter with difficulty.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 74,
      "arabic": "فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا لَقِيَا غُلَٰمًۭا فَقَتَلَهُۥ قَالَ أَقَتَلْتَ نَفْسًۭا زَكِيَّةًۢ بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍۢ لَّقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْـًۭٔا نُّكْرًۭا",
      "translation": "So they set out, until when they met a boy, al-Khidh r killed him. [Moses] said, \"Have you killed a pure soul for other than [having killed] a soul? You have certainly done a deplorable thing.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 75,
      "arabic": "۞ قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِىَ صَبْرًۭا",
      "translation": "[Al-Khidh r] said, \"Did I not tell you that with me you would never be able to have patience?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 76,
      "arabic": "قَالَ إِن سَأَلْتُكَ عَن شَىْءٍۭ بَعْدَهَا فَلَا تُصَٰحِبْنِى ۖ قَدْ بَلَغْتَ مِن لَّدُنِّى عُذْرًۭا",
      "translation": "[Moses] said, \"If I should ask you about anything after this, then do not keep me as a companion. You have obtained from me an excuse.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 77,
      "arabic": "فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ ٱسْتَطْعَمَآ أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْا۟ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًۭا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُۥ ۖ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًۭا",
      "translation": "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.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 78,
      "arabic": "قَالَ هَٰذَا فِرَاقُ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنِكَ ۚ سَأُنَبِّئُكَ بِتَأْوِيلِ مَا لَمْ تَسْتَطِع عَّلَيْهِ صَبْرًا",
      "translation": "[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."
    },
    {
      "n": 79,
      "arabic": "أَمَّا ٱلسَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتْ لِمَسَٰكِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ فَأَرَدتُّ أَنْ أَعِيبَهَا وَكَانَ وَرَآءَهُم مَّلِكٌۭ يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصْبًۭا",
      "translation": "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."
    },
    {
      "n": 80,
      "arabic": "وَأَمَّا ٱلْغُلَٰمُ فَكَانَ أَبَوَاهُ مُؤْمِنَيْنِ فَخَشِينَآ أَن يُرْهِقَهُمَا طُغْيَٰنًۭا وَكُفْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief."
    },
    {
      "n": 81,
      "arabic": "فَأَرَدْنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَهُمَا رَبُّهُمَا خَيْرًۭا مِّنْهُ زَكَوٰةًۭ وَأَقْرَبَ رُحْمًۭا",
      "translation": "So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy."
    },
    {
      "n": 82,
      "arabic": "وَأَمَّا ٱلْجِدَارُ فَكَانَ لِغُلَٰمَيْنِ يَتِيمَيْنِ فِى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ وَكَانَ تَحْتَهُۥ كَنزٌۭ لَّهُمَا وَكَانَ أَبُوهُمَا صَٰلِحًۭا فَأَرَادَ رَبُّكَ أَن يَبْلُغَآ أَشُدَّهُمَا وَيَسْتَخْرِجَا كَنزَهُمَا رَحْمَةًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ وَمَا فَعَلْتُهُۥ عَنْ أَمْرِى ۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَأْوِيلُ مَا لَمْ تَسْطِع عَّلَيْهِ صَبْرًۭا",
      "translation": "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.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 83,
      "arabic": "وَيَسْـَٔلُونَكَ عَن ذِى ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ ۖ قُلْ سَأَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْكُم مِّنْهُ ذِكْرًا",
      "translation": "And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, \"I will recite to you about him a report.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 84,
      "arabic": "إِنَّا مَكَّنَّا لَهُۥ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُ مِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ سَبَبًۭا",
      "translation": "Indeed We established him upon the earth, and We gave him to everything a way."
    },
    {
      "n": 85,
      "arabic": "فَأَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا",
      "translation": "So he followed a way"
    },
    {
      "n": 86,
      "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَغْرِبَ ٱلشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَغْرُبُ فِى عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍۢ وَوَجَدَ عِندَهَا قَوْمًۭا ۗ قُلْنَا يَٰذَا ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ إِمَّآ أَن تُعَذِّبَ وَإِمَّآ أَن تَتَّخِذَ فِيهِمْ حُسْنًۭا",
      "translation": "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.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 87,
      "arabic": "قَالَ أَمَّا مَن ظَلَمَ فَسَوْفَ نُعَذِّبُهُۥ ثُمَّ يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ فَيُعَذِّبُهُۥ عَذَابًۭا نُّكْرًۭا",
      "translation": "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."
    },
    {
      "n": 88,
      "arabic": "وَأَمَّا مَنْ ءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا فَلَهُۥ جَزَآءً ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ ۖ وَسَنَقُولُ لَهُۥ مِنْ أَمْرِنَا يُسْرًۭا",
      "translation": "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.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 89,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا",
      "translation": "Then he followed a way"
    },
    {
      "n": 90,
      "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَطْلِعَ ٱلشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَطْلُعُ عَلَىٰ قَوْمٍۢ لَّمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُم مِّن دُونِهَا سِتْرًۭا",
      "translation": "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."
    },
    {
      "n": 91,
      "arabic": "كَذَٰلِكَ وَقَدْ أَحَطْنَا بِمَا لَدَيْهِ خُبْرًۭا",
      "translation": "Thus. And We had encompassed [all] that he had in knowledge."
    },
    {
      "n": 92,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا",
      "translation": "Then he followed a way"
    },
    {
      "n": 93,
      "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ بَيْنَ ٱلسَّدَّيْنِ وَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمَا قَوْمًۭا لَّا يَكَادُونَ يَفْقَهُونَ قَوْلًۭا",
      "translation": "Until, when he reached [a pass] between two mountains, he found beside them a people who could hardly understand [his] speech."
    },
    {
      "n": 94,
      "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ يَٰذَا ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ إِنَّ يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مُفْسِدُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَهَلْ نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَىٰٓ أَن تَجْعَلَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّۭا",
      "translation": "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?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 95,
      "arabic": "قَالَ مَا مَكَّنِّى فِيهِ رَبِّى خَيْرٌۭ فَأَعِينُونِى بِقُوَّةٍ أَجْعَلْ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُمْ رَدْمًا",
      "translation": "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."
    },
    {
      "n": 96,
      "arabic": "ءَاتُونِى زُبَرَ ٱلْحَدِيدِ ۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيْنَ ٱلصَّدَفَيْنِ قَالَ ٱنفُخُوا۟ ۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَعَلَهُۥ نَارًۭا قَالَ ءَاتُونِىٓ أُفْرِغْ عَلَيْهِ قِطْرًۭا",
      "translation": "Bring me sheets of iron\" - until, when he had leveled [them] between the two mountain walls, he said, \"Blow [with bellows],\" until when he had made it [like] fire, he said, \"Bring me, that I may pour over it molten copper.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 97,
      "arabic": "فَمَا ٱسْطَٰعُوٓا۟ أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ لَهُۥ نَقْبًۭا",
      "translation": "So Gog and Magog were unable to pass over it, nor were they able [to effect] in it any penetration."
    },
    {
      "n": 98,
      "arabic": "قَالَ هَٰذَا رَحْمَةٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّى ۖ فَإِذَا جَآءَ وَعْدُ رَبِّى جَعَلَهُۥ دَكَّآءَ ۖ وَكَانَ وَعْدُ رَبِّى حَقًّۭا",
      "translation": "[Dhul-Qarnayn] said, \"This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord comes, He will make it level, and ever is the promise of my Lord true.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 99,
      "arabic": "۞ وَتَرَكْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَمُوجُ فِى بَعْضٍۢ ۖ وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَجَمَعْنَٰهُمْ جَمْعًۭا",
      "translation": "And We will leave them that day surging over each other, and [then] the Horn will be blown, and We will assemble them in [one] assembly."
    },
    {
      "n": 100,
      "arabic": "وَعَرَضْنَا جَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَرْضًا",
      "translation": "And We will present Hell that Day to the Disbelievers, on display -"
    },
    {
      "n": 101,
      "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ كَانَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمْ فِى غِطَآءٍ عَن ذِكْرِى وَكَانُوا۟ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَمْعًا",
      "translation": "Those whose eyes had been within a cover [removed] from My remembrance, and they were not able to hear."
    },
    {
      "n": 102,
      "arabic": "أَفَحَسِبَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَن يَتَّخِذُوا۟ عِبَادِى مِن دُونِىٓ أَوْلِيَآءَ ۚ إِنَّآ أَعْتَدْنَا جَهَنَّمَ لِلْكَٰفِرِينَ نُزُلًۭا",
      "translation": "Then do those who disbelieve think that they can take My servants instead of Me as allies? Indeed, We have prepared Hell for the disbelievers as a lodging."
    },
    {
      "n": 103,
      "arabic": "قُلْ هَلْ نُنَبِّئُكُم بِٱلْأَخْسَرِينَ أَعْمَٰلًا",
      "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"Shall we [believers] inform you of the greatest losers as to [their] deeds?"
    },
    {
      "n": 104,
      "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ ضَلَّ سَعْيُهُمْ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ يُحْسِنُونَ صُنْعًا",
      "translation": "[They are] those whose effort is lost in worldly life, while they think that they are doing well in work.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 105,
      "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ وَلِقَآئِهِۦ فَحَبِطَتْ أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَزْنًۭا",
      "translation": "Those are the ones who disbelieve in the verses of their Lord and in [their] meeting Him, so their deeds have become worthless; and We will not assign to them on the Day of Resurrection any importance."
    },
    {
      "n": 106,
      "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ بِمَا كَفَرُوا۟ وَٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ءَايَٰتِى وَرُسُلِى هُزُوًا",
      "translation": "That is their recompense - Hell - for what they denied and [because] they took My signs and My messengers in ridicule."
    },
    {
      "n": 107,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ جَنَّٰتُ ٱلْفِرْدَوْسِ نُزُلًا",
      "translation": "Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - they will have the Gardens of Paradise as a lodging,"
    },
    {
      "n": 108,
      "arabic": "خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا لَا يَبْغُونَ عَنْهَا حِوَلًۭا",
      "translation": "Wherein they abide eternally. They will not desire from it any transfer."
    },
    {
      "n": 109,
      "arabic": "قُل لَّوْ كَانَ ٱلْبَحْرُ مِدَادًۭا لِّكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّى لَنَفِدَ ٱلْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَٰتُ رَبِّى وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِۦ مَدَدًۭا",
      "translation": "Say, \"If the sea were ink for [writing] the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it as a supplement.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 110,
      "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّمَآ أَنَا۠ بَشَرٌۭ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَىَّ أَنَّمَآ إِلَٰهُكُمْ إِلَٰهٌۭ وَٰحِدٌۭ ۖ فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُوا۟ لِقَآءَ رَبِّهِۦ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلًۭا صَٰلِحًۭا وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِۦٓ أَحَدًۢا",
      "translation": "Say, \"I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.\""
    }
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      "the sun,",
      "when",
      "it rose,",
      "inclining away",
      "from",
      "their cave",
      "to",
      "the right,",
      "and when",
      "it set,",
      "passing away from them",
      "to",
      "the left",
      "while they",
      "(lay) in",
      "the open space",
      "thereof.",
      "That",
      "(was) from",
      "(the) Signs",
      "(of) Allah.",
      "Whoever",
      "guides",
      "Allah",
      "and he",
      "(is) the guided one,",
      "and whoever",
      "He lets go astray",
      "then never",
      "you will find",
      "for him",
      "a protector,",
      "a guide."
    ],
    [
      "And you (would) think them",
      "awake",
      "while they",
      "(were) asleep.",
      "And We turned them",
      "to",
      "the right",
      "and to",
      "the left,",
      "while their dog",
      "stretched",
      "his two forelegs",
      "at the entrance.",
      "If",
      "you had looked",
      "at them,",
      "you (would) have surely turned back",
      "from them",
      "(in) flight",
      "and surely you would have been filled",
      "by them",
      "(with) terror."
    ],
    [
      "And similarly,",
      "We raised them",
      "that they might question",
      "among them.",
      "Said",
      "a speaker",
      "among them,",
      "\"How long",
      "have you remained?\"",
      "They said,",
      "\"We have remained",
      "a day",
      "or",
      "a part",
      "(of) a day.\"",
      "They said,",
      "\"Your Lord",
      "knows best",
      "how long",
      "you have remained.",
      "So send",
      "one of you",
      "with your silver coin",
      "this",
      "to",
      "the city,",
      "and let him see",
      "which is",
      "the purest",
      "food,",
      "and let him bring to you",
      "provision",
      "from it,",
      "and let him be cautious.",
      "and not",
      "let know",
      "about you",
      "anyone.\""
    ],
    [
      "\"Indeed, [they]",
      "if",
      "they come to know",
      "about you,",
      "they will stone you",
      "or",
      "return you",
      "to",
      "their religion.",
      "And never",
      "will you succeed",
      "then -",
      "ever.\""
    ],
    [
      "And similarly,",
      "We made known",
      "about them",
      "that they might know",
      "that",
      "(the) Promise",
      "(of) Allah",
      "(is) true,",
      "and that",
      "(about) the Hour",
      "(there is) no",
      "doubt",
      "in it.",
      "When",
      "they disputed",
      "among themselves",
      "about their affair",
      "and they said,",
      "\"Construct",
      "over them",
      "a structure.",
      "Their Lord",
      "knows best",
      "about them.\"",
      "Said",
      "those who",
      "prevailed",
      "in",
      "their matter,",
      "\"Surely we will take",
      "over them",
      "a place of worship.\""
    ],
    [
      "They say,",
      "(they were) three,",
      "the forth of them",
      "their dog;",
      "and they say",
      "(they were) five",
      "the sixth of them",
      "their dog -",
      "guessing",
      "about the unseen;",
      "and they say,",
      "(they were) seven",
      "and the eight of them",
      "their dog.",
      "Say,",
      "\"My Lord,",
      "knows best",
      "their number.",
      "None",
      "knows them",
      "except",
      "a few.",
      "So (do) not",
      "argue",
      "about them",
      "except",
      "(with) an argument",
      "obvious,",
      "and (do) not",
      "inquire",
      "about them",
      "among them",
      "(from) anyone.\""
    ],
    [
      "And (do) not",
      "say",
      "of anything,",
      "\"Indeed, I",
      "will do",
      "that",
      "tomorrow.\""
    ],
    [
      "Except,",
      "\"If",
      "wills",
      "Allah",
      "And remember",
      "your Lord",
      "when",
      "you forget",
      "and say,",
      "\"Perhaps",
      "[that]",
      "will guide me",
      "my Lord",
      "to a nearer (way)",
      "than",
      "this",
      "right way.\""
    ],
    [
      "And they remained",
      "in",
      "their cave",
      "(for) three",
      "hundred",
      "years",
      "and add",
      "nine."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Allah",
      "knows best",
      "about what (period)",
      "they remained.",
      "For Him",
      "(is the) unseen",
      "(of) the heavens",
      "and the earth.",
      "How clearly He sees!",
      "[of it]",
      "And how clearly He hears!",
      "Not",
      "for them",
      "instead",
      "of Him",
      "any",
      "protector,",
      "and not",
      "He shares",
      "[in]",
      "His Commands",
      "(with) anyone.\""
    ],
    [
      "And recite",
      "what",
      "has been revealed",
      "to you",
      "of",
      "the Book",
      "(of) your Lord.",
      "None",
      "can change",
      "His Words",
      "and never",
      "you will find",
      "instead",
      "of Him",
      "a refuge."
    ],
    [
      "And be patient,",
      "yourself,",
      "with",
      "those who",
      "call",
      "their Lord",
      "in the morning",
      "and the evening",
      "desiring",
      "His Face.",
      "And (let) not",
      "pass beyond",
      "your eyes",
      "over them,",
      "desiring",
      "adornment",
      "(of) the life",
      "(of) the world,",
      "and (do) not",
      "obey",
      "whom",
      "We have made heedless",
      "his heart",
      "of",
      "Our remembrance,",
      "and follows",
      "his desires",
      "and is",
      "his affair",
      "(in) excess."
    ],
    [
      "And say,",
      "\"The truth",
      "(is) from",
      "your Lord,",
      "so whoever",
      "wills -",
      "let him believe",
      "and whoever",
      "wills -",
      "let him disbelieve.\"",
      "Indeed, We",
      "have prepared",
      "for the wrongdoers",
      "a Fire,",
      "will surround",
      "them",
      "its walls.",
      "And if",
      "they call for relief,",
      "they will be relieved",
      "with water",
      "like molten brass,",
      "(which) scalds",
      "the faces.",
      "Wretched",
      "(is) the drink,",
      "and evil",
      "(is) the resting place."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "those who",
      "believed",
      "and did",
      "the good deeds,",
      "indeed, We",
      "not",
      "We let go to waste",
      "(the) reward",
      "(of one) who",
      "does good",
      "deeds."
    ],
    [
      "Those,",
      "for them",
      "(are) Gardens",
      "of Eden,",
      "flows",
      "from",
      "underneath them",
      "the rivers.",
      "They will be adorned",
      "therein",
      "[of] (with)",
      "bracelets",
      "of",
      "gold",
      "and will wear",
      "garments,",
      "green,",
      "of",
      "fine silk",
      "and heavy brocade,",
      "reclining",
      "therein",
      "on",
      "adorned couches.",
      "Excellent",
      "(is) the reward,",
      "and good",
      "(is) the resting place."
    ],
    [
      "And set forth",
      "to them",
      "the example",
      "of two men:",
      "We provided",
      "for one of them",
      "two gardens",
      "of",
      "grapes,",
      "and We bordered them",
      "with date-palms,",
      "and We placed",
      "between both of them",
      "crops."
    ],
    [
      "Each",
      "(of) the two gardens",
      "brought forth",
      "its produce",
      "and not",
      "did wrong",
      "of it",
      "anything.",
      "And We caused to gush forth",
      "within them",
      "a river."
    ],
    [
      "And was",
      "for him",
      "fruit,",
      "so he said",
      "to his companion",
      "while he",
      "(was) talking with him,",
      "\"I am",
      "greater",
      "than you",
      "(in) wealth",
      "and stronger",
      "(in) men.\""
    ],
    [
      "And he entered",
      "his garden",
      "while he",
      "(was) unjust",
      "to himself.",
      "He said,",
      "\"Not",
      "I think",
      "that",
      "will perish",
      "this",
      "ever."
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "I think",
      "the Hour",
      "will occur.",
      "And if",
      "I am brought back",
      "to",
      "my Lord,",
      "I will surely find",
      "better",
      "than this",
      "(as) a return.\""
    ],
    [
      "Said",
      "to him",
      "his companion",
      "while he",
      "was talking to him,",
      "\"Do you disbelieve",
      "in One Who",
      "created you",
      "from",
      "dust",
      "then",
      "from",
      "a minute quantity of semen.",
      "then",
      "fashioned you",
      "(into) a man?"
    ],
    [
      "But as for me,",
      "He",
      "(is) Allah,",
      "my Lord,",
      "and not",
      "I associate",
      "with my Lord",
      "anyone."
    ],
    [
      "And why (did you) not,",
      "when",
      "you entered",
      "your garden",
      "say,",
      "\"What",
      "wills",
      "Allah;",
      "(there is) no",
      "power",
      "except",
      "with Allah.\"",
      "If",
      "you see me",
      "(me)",
      "lesser",
      "than you",
      "(in) wealth",
      "and children,"
    ],
    [
      "It may be",
      "my Lord",
      "that",
      "will give me",
      "better",
      "than",
      "your garden",
      "and will send",
      "upon it",
      "a calamity",
      "from",
      "the sky,",
      "then it will become",
      "ground",
      "slippery,"
    ],
    [
      "Or",
      "will become,",
      "its water,",
      "sunken,",
      "so never",
      "you will be able",
      "for it",
      "a search."
    ],
    [
      "And were surrounded",
      "his fruits,",
      "so he began",
      "twisting",
      "his hands",
      "over",
      "what",
      "he (had) spent",
      "on it,",
      "while it (had)",
      "collapsed",
      "on",
      "its trellises,",
      "and he said,",
      "\"Oh! I wish",
      "not",
      "I had associated",
      "with my Lord",
      "anyone.\""
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "was",
      "for him",
      "a group",
      "(to) help him",
      "other",
      "than",
      "Allah,",
      "and not",
      "was",
      "(he) supported."
    ],
    [
      "There,",
      "the protection",
      "(is) from Allah",
      "the True.",
      "He",
      "(is the) best",
      "(to) reward",
      "and (the) best",
      "(for) the final end."
    ],
    [
      "And present",
      "to them",
      "the example",
      "(of) the life",
      "(of) the world,",
      "like water",
      "which We send down",
      "from",
      "the sky,",
      "then mingles",
      "with it",
      "(the) vegetation",
      "(of) the earth",
      "then becomes",
      "dry stalks,",
      "it (is) scattered",
      "(by) the winds.",
      "And is",
      "Allah",
      "over",
      "every",
      "thing",
      "(is) All Able."
    ],
    [
      "The wealth",
      "and children",
      "(are) adornment",
      "(of) the life",
      "(of) the world.",
      "But the enduring",
      "good deeds",
      "(are) better",
      "near",
      "your Lord",
      "(for) reward",
      "and better",
      "(for) hope."
    ],
    [
      "And the Day",
      "We will cause (to) move",
      "the mountains",
      "and you will see",
      "the earth",
      "(as) a leveled plain",
      "and We will gather them",
      "and not",
      "We will leave behind",
      "from them",
      "anyone."
    ],
    [
      "And they will be presented",
      "before",
      "your Lord",
      "(in) rows,",
      "\"Certainly,",
      "you have come to Us",
      "as",
      "We created you",
      "the first",
      "time.",
      "Nay,",
      "you claimed",
      "that not",
      "We made",
      "for you",
      "an appointment.\""
    ],
    [
      "And (will) be placed",
      "the Book",
      "and you will see",
      "the criminals",
      "fearful",
      "of what",
      "(is) in it,",
      "and they will say,",
      "\"Oh, woe to us!",
      "What (is) for",
      "this",
      "[the] Book,",
      "not",
      "leaves",
      "a small",
      "and not",
      "a great",
      "except",
      "has enumerated it?\"",
      "And they will find",
      "what",
      "they did",
      "presented.",
      "And not",
      "deals unjustly",
      "your Lord",
      "(with) anyone."
    ],
    [
      "And when",
      "We said",
      "to the Angels,",
      "\"Prostrate",
      "to Adam,\"",
      "so they prostrated",
      "except",
      "Iblis.",
      "(He) was",
      "of",
      "the jinn,",
      "and he rebelled",
      "against",
      "the Command",
      "(of) his Lord.",
      "Will you then take him",
      "and his offspring",
      "(as) protectors",
      "other",
      "than Me,",
      "while they",
      "(are) to you",
      "enemies?",
      "Wretched",
      "for the wrongdoers",
      "(is) the exchange."
    ],
    [
      "Not",
      "I made them witness",
      "the creation",
      "(of) the heavens",
      "and the earth",
      "and not",
      "the creation",
      "(of) themselves",
      "and not",
      "I Am",
      "the One to take",
      "the misleaders",
      "(as) helper(s)."
    ],
    [
      "And the Day",
      "He will say,",
      "\"Call",
      "My partners,",
      "those who",
      "you claimed,\"",
      "then they will call them",
      "but not",
      "they will respond",
      "to them.",
      "And We will make",
      "between them",
      "a barrier."
    ],
    [
      "And will see",
      "the criminals",
      "the Fire,",
      "and they (will be) certain",
      "that they",
      "are to fall in it.",
      "And not",
      "they will find",
      "from it",
      "a way of escape."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly,",
      "We have explained",
      "in",
      "this",
      "the Quran",
      "for mankind",
      "of",
      "every",
      "example.",
      "But is",
      "the man",
      "(in) most",
      "things",
      "quarrelsome."
    ],
    [
      "And nothing",
      "prevents",
      "men",
      "that",
      "they believe",
      "when",
      "has come to them",
      "the guidance",
      "and they ask forgiveness",
      "(of) their Lord,",
      "except",
      "that",
      "comes to them",
      "(the) way",
      "(of) the former (people)",
      "or",
      "comes to them",
      "the punishment",
      "before (them)?"
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "We send",
      "the Messengers",
      "except",
      "(as) bearers of glad tidings",
      "and (as) warners.",
      "And dispute",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve",
      "with falsehood,",
      "to refute",
      "thereby",
      "the truth.",
      "And they take",
      "My Verses",
      "and what",
      "they are warned",
      "(in) ridicule."
    ],
    [
      "And who",
      "(is) more wrong",
      "than (he) who",
      "is reminded",
      "of the Verses",
      "(of) his Lord,",
      "but turns away",
      "from them,",
      "and forgets",
      "what",
      "have sent forth",
      "his hands?",
      "Indeed, We",
      "[We] have placed",
      "over",
      "their hearts",
      "coverings,",
      "lest",
      "they understand it",
      "and in",
      "their ears",
      "(is) deafness.",
      "And if",
      "you call them",
      "to",
      "the guidance,",
      "then never",
      "they will be guided",
      "then",
      "ever."
    ],
    [
      "And your Lord",
      "(is) the Most Forgiving,",
      "Owner",
      "(of) the Mercy.",
      "If",
      "He were to seize them",
      "for what",
      "they have earned,",
      "surely, He (would) have hastened",
      "for them",
      "the punishment.",
      "But",
      "for them",
      "(is) an appointment,",
      "never",
      "they will find",
      "other",
      "than it",
      "an escape."
    ],
    [
      "And these",
      "[the] towns,",
      "We destroyed them",
      "when",
      "they wronged,",
      "and We made",
      "for their destruction",
      "an appointed time."
    ],
    [
      "And when",
      "said",
      "Musa",
      "to his boy,",
      "\"Not",
      "I will cease",
      "until",
      "I reach",
      "the junction",
      "(of) the two seas",
      "or",
      "I continue",
      "(for) a long period.\""
    ],
    [
      "But when",
      "they reached",
      "the junction",
      "between them,",
      "they forgot",
      "their fish,",
      "and it took",
      "its way",
      "into",
      "the sea,",
      "slipping away."
    ],
    [
      "Then when",
      "they had passed beyond",
      "he said",
      "to his boy,",
      "\"Bring us",
      "our morning meal.",
      "Certainly",
      "we have suffered",
      "in",
      "our journey",
      "this,",
      "fatigue.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Did you see,",
      "when",
      "we retired",
      "to",
      "the rock?",
      "Then indeed, I",
      "[I] forgot",
      "the fish.",
      "And not",
      "made me forget it",
      "except",
      "the Shaitaan",
      "that",
      "I mention it.",
      "And it took",
      "its way",
      "into",
      "the sea",
      "amazingly.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"That",
      "(is) what",
      "we were",
      "seeking.\"",
      "So they returned",
      "on",
      "their footprints,",
      "retracing."
    ],
    [
      "Then they found",
      "a servant",
      "from",
      "Our servants,",
      "whom We had given",
      "mercy",
      "from",
      "Us,",
      "and We had taught him",
      "from",
      "Us",
      "a knowledge."
    ],
    [
      "Said",
      "to him",
      "Musa,",
      "\"May,",
      "I follow you",
      "on",
      "that",
      "you teach me",
      "of what",
      "you have been taught",
      "(of) right guidance?\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Indeed, you",
      "never",
      "will be able,",
      "with me,",
      "(to have) patience."
    ],
    [
      "And how can",
      "you have patience",
      "for",
      "what",
      "not",
      "you encompass",
      "of it",
      "any knowledge.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"You will find me,",
      "if",
      "wills",
      "Allah,",
      "patient,",
      "and not",
      "I will disobey",
      "your",
      "order.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Then if",
      "you follow me,",
      "(do) not",
      "ask me",
      "about",
      "anything",
      "until",
      "I present",
      "to you",
      "of it",
      "a mention.\""
    ],
    [
      "So they both set out",
      "until",
      "when",
      "they had embarked",
      "on",
      "the ship",
      "he made a hole in it.",
      "He said,",
      "\"Have you made a hole in it,",
      "to drown",
      "its people?",
      "Certainly,",
      "you have done",
      "a thing",
      "grave.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Did not",
      "I say,",
      "indeed, you",
      "never",
      "will be able",
      "with me",
      "(to have) patience?\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"(Do) not,",
      "blame me",
      "for what",
      "I forgot",
      "and (do) not",
      "be hard (upon) me",
      "in",
      "my affair",
      "(raising) difficulty.\""
    ],
    [
      "Then they both set out",
      "until",
      "when",
      "they met",
      "a boy,",
      "then he killed him.",
      "He said,",
      "\"Have you killed",
      "a soul,",
      "pure,",
      "for other than",
      "a soul?",
      "Certainly,",
      "you have done",
      "a thing",
      "evil.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Did not",
      "I say",
      "to you",
      "that you,",
      "never",
      "will be able",
      "with me",
      "(to have) patience?\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"If",
      "I ask you",
      "about",
      "anything",
      "after it,",
      "then (do) not",
      "keep me as a companion.",
      "Verily,",
      "you have reached",
      "from",
      "me",
      "an excuse.\""
    ],
    [
      "So they set out",
      "until",
      "when",
      "they came",
      "(to the) people",
      "(of) a town,",
      "they asked for food",
      "(from) its people,",
      "but they refused",
      "to",
      "offer them hospitality.",
      "Then they found",
      "in it",
      "a wall",
      "(that) want(ed)",
      "to",
      "collapse,",
      "so he set it straight.",
      "He said,",
      "\"If",
      "you wished",
      "surely you (could) have taken",
      "for it",
      "a payment.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) parting",
      "between me",
      "and between you.",
      "I will inform you",
      "of (the) interpretation",
      "(of) what",
      "not",
      "you were able",
      "on it",
      "(to have) patience."
    ],
    [
      "As for",
      "the ship,",
      "it was",
      "of (the) poor people",
      "working",
      "in",
      "the sea.",
      "So I intended",
      "that",
      "I cause defect (in) it",
      "(as there) was",
      "after them",
      "a king",
      "who seized",
      "every",
      "ship",
      "(by) force."
    ],
    [
      "And as for",
      "the boy",
      "were",
      "his parents",
      "believers,",
      "and we feared",
      "that",
      "he would overburden them",
      "(by) transgression",
      "and disbelief."
    ],
    [
      "So we intended",
      "that",
      "would change for them",
      "their Lord,",
      "a better",
      "than him",
      "(in) purity",
      "and nearer",
      "(in) affection."
    ],
    [
      "And as for",
      "the wall,",
      "it was",
      "for two boys",
      "orphaned,",
      "in",
      "the town,",
      "and was",
      "underneath it",
      "a treasure",
      "for them",
      "and was",
      "their father",
      "righteous.",
      "So intended",
      "your Lord",
      "that",
      "they reach",
      "their maturity,",
      "and bring forth",
      "their treasure",
      "(as) a mercy",
      "from",
      "your Lord.",
      "And not",
      "I did it",
      "on",
      "my (own) accord.",
      "That",
      "(is the) interpretation",
      "(of) what",
      "not",
      "you were able",
      "on it",
      "(to have) patience.\""
    ],
    [
      "And they ask you",
      "about",
      "possessor of",
      "the two horns [Dhul-Qarnayn].",
      "Say,",
      "\"I will recite",
      "to you",
      "about him",
      "a remembrance.\""
    ],
    [
      "Indeed, We",
      "[We] established",
      "[for] him",
      "in",
      "the earth,",
      "and We gave him",
      "of",
      "every",
      "thing",
      "a means."
    ],
    [
      "So he followed",
      "a course"
    ],
    [
      "Until,",
      "when",
      "he reached",
      "(the) setting place",
      "(of) the sun,",
      "he found it",
      "setting",
      "in",
      "a spring",
      "(of) dark mud,",
      "and he found",
      "near it",
      "a community.",
      "We said,",
      "O possessor of",
      "the two horns [Dhul-Qarnayn]!",
      "Either",
      "[that]",
      "you punish",
      "or",
      "[that]",
      "you take",
      "[in] them",
      "(with) goodness.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"As for",
      "(one) who",
      "wrongs,",
      "then soon",
      "we will punish him.",
      "Then",
      "he will be returned",
      "to",
      "his Lord,",
      "and He will punish him",
      "(with) a punishment",
      "terrible."
    ],
    [
      "But as for",
      "(one) who",
      "believes",
      "and does",
      "righteous (deeds),",
      "then for him",
      "(is) a reward",
      "good.",
      "And we will speak",
      "to him",
      "from",
      "our command",
      "(with) ease.\""
    ],
    [
      "Then",
      "he followed",
      "(a) course"
    ],
    [
      "Until,",
      "when",
      "he reached",
      "(the) rising place",
      "(of) the sun,",
      "and he found it",
      "rising",
      "on",
      "a community",
      "not",
      "We made",
      "for them",
      "apart",
      "from it",
      "any shelter."
    ],
    [
      "Thus.",
      "And verily,",
      "We encompassed",
      "of what",
      "(was) with him",
      "(of the) information."
    ],
    [
      "Then",
      "he followed",
      "a course"
    ],
    [
      "Until,",
      "when",
      "he reached",
      "between",
      "the two mountains,",
      "he found",
      "on this side",
      "of them",
      "a community,",
      "not",
      "who would almost",
      "understand",
      "(his) speech."
    ],
    [
      "They said,",
      "O possessor of",
      "the two horns [Dhul-Qarnayn]!",
      "Indeed,",
      "Yajuj",
      "and Majuj",
      "(are) corrupters",
      "in",
      "the land.",
      "So may",
      "we make",
      "for you",
      "an expenditure",
      "[on]",
      "that",
      "you make",
      "between us",
      "and between them",
      "a barrier?\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"What",
      "has established me",
      "[in it]",
      "my Lord",
      "(is) better,",
      "but assist me",
      "with strength,",
      "I will make",
      "between you",
      "and between them",
      "a barrier."
    ],
    [
      "Bring me",
      "sheets",
      "(of) iron\"",
      "until,",
      "when",
      "he (had) leveled",
      "between",
      "the two cliffs,",
      "he said,",
      "\"Blow,\"",
      "until",
      "when",
      "he made it",
      "fire,",
      "he said,",
      "\"Bring me,",
      "I pour",
      "over it",
      "molten copper.\""
    ],
    [
      "So not",
      "they were able",
      "to",
      "scale it",
      "and not",
      "they were able",
      "in it",
      "(to do) any penetration."
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) a mercy",
      "from",
      "my Lord.",
      "But when",
      "comes",
      "(the) Promise",
      "(of) my Lord,",
      "He will make it",
      "level.",
      "And is",
      "(the) Promise",
      "(of) my Lord",
      "true.\""
    ],
    [
      "And We (will) leave",
      "some of them",
      "(on) that Day",
      "to surge",
      "over",
      "others,",
      "and (will be) blown",
      "in",
      "the trumpet,",
      "then We (will) gather them",
      "all together."
    ],
    [
      "And We (will) present",
      "Hell",
      "(on) that Day",
      "to the disbelievers,",
      "(on) display"
    ],
    [
      "Those",
      "had been",
      "their eyes",
      "within",
      "a cover",
      "from",
      "My remembrance,",
      "and were",
      "not",
      "able",
      "(to) hear."
    ],
    [
      "Do then think",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve",
      "that",
      "they (can) take",
      "My servants",
      "instead",
      "of Me",
      "(as) protectors?",
      "Indeed, We -",
      "We have prepared",
      "Hell",
      "for the disbelievers",
      "(as) a lodging."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Shall",
      "We inform you",
      "of the greatest losers",
      "(as to their) deeds?"
    ],
    [
      "Those -",
      "is lost",
      "their effort",
      "in",
      "the life",
      "(of) the world,",
      "while they",
      "think",
      "that they",
      "(were) acquiring good",
      "(in) work.\""
    ],
    [
      "Those",
      "(are) the ones who",
      "disbelieve",
      "in the Verses",
      "(of) their Lord,",
      "and the meeting (with) Him.",
      "So (are) vain",
      "their deeds,",
      "so not",
      "We will assign",
      "for them",
      "(on) the Day",
      "(of) the Resurrection",
      "any weight."
    ],
    [
      "That",
      "(is) their recompense -",
      "Hell -",
      "because",
      "they disbelieved,",
      "and took",
      "My Verses",
      "and My Messengers",
      "(in) ridicule."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "those who",
      "believed",
      "and did",
      "righteous deeds,",
      "will be",
      "for them",
      "Gardens",
      "(of) the Paradise",
      "(as) a lodging,"
    ],
    [
      "Abiding forever",
      "in it.",
      "Not",
      "they will desire",
      "from it",
      "any transfer."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"If",
      "were",
      "the sea",
      "ink,",
      "for (the) Words",
      "(of) my Lord,",
      "surely (would be) exhausted",
      "the sea",
      "before",
      "[that]",
      "(were) exhausted",
      "(the) Words",
      "(of) my Lord,",
      "even if",
      "We brought",
      "(the) like (of) it",
      "(as) a supplement.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Only",
      "I",
      "(am) a man",
      "like you.",
      "Has been revealed",
      "to me",
      "that",
      "your God",
      "(is) God",
      "One.",
      "So whoever",
      "is",
      "hoping",
      "(for the) meeting",
      "(with) his Lord,",
      "let him do",
      "deeds",
      "righteous",
      "and not",
      "associate",
      "in (the) worship",
      "(of) his Lord",
      "anyone.\""
    ]
  ],
  "titles": [
    "Praise for a straight message",
    "Warning and welcome",
    "An enduring reward",
    "A claim about God",
    "Inherited claims need knowledge",
    "The weight of concern",
    "Beauty as a test",
    "When decoration disappears",
    "The cave among many signs",
    "A prayer in refuge",
    "Years of protected sleep",
    "Awakening and uncertainty",
    "Young faith, growing guidance",
    "Hearts made firm",
    "Asking for a warrant",
    "Mercy in an unlikely shelter",
    "Sunlight at the entrance",
    "Sleepers and a watchful threshold",
    "A coin and a careful errand",
    "The danger outside",
    "Discovery and the promise",
    "Knowing when to stop guessing",
    "Tomorrow is not possessed",
    "Planning with humility",
    "The duration stated",
    "Knowledge beyond our reach",
    "Return to the revealed words",
    "Stay beside sincere worshippers",
    "Choice carries consequence",
    "Good work is not lost",
    "A welcome beyond hardship",
    "Two gardens, two outlooks",
    "Nothing withheld by the garden",
    "Wealth becomes a comparison",
    "Mistaking stability for permanence",
    "Presuming a better outcome",
    "Remembering one's beginning",
    "A clear confession",
    "Gratitude at the gate",
    "Prosperity can reverse",
    "Water beyond reach",
    "Regret among fallen trellises",
    "Support that cannot rescue",
    "Where protection belongs",
    "Rain, growth, and scattered stems",
    "What remains after ornament",
    "Nothing left outside the gathering",
    "Standing as at the beginning",
    "A record that misses nothing",
    "An enemy mistaken for a guardian",
    "No partners in creation",
    "An unanswered appeal",
    "Seeing the consequence",
    "Examples and argument",
    "Waiting until the warning arrives",
    "The messenger's task",
    "Turning away from one's own deeds",
    "Mercy within the delay",
    "Ruins as reminders",
    "A journey to learn",
    "A sign at the meeting place",
    "Weariness and a meal",
    "Remembering the overlooked sign",
    "Returning can be progress",
    "Knowledge given with mercy",
    "Asking to be taught",
    "A difficult condition",
    "The limits of understanding",
    "A promise of patience",
    "Waiting for an explanation",
    "A damaged boat and a protest",
    "The condition recalled",
    "An apology without pretence",
    "An innocent life",
    "A second reminder",
    "A limit accepted",
    "A wall repaired without payment",
    "Parting and interpretation",
    "Protecting a livelihood",
    "An exceptional disclosure",
    "Mercy within the explanation",
    "The orphans' protected inheritance",
    "A question about Dhul-Qarnayn",
    "Power accompanied by means",
    "Taking a route",
    "At the western horizon",
    "Answerability beyond a ruler",
    "A mild response to good",
    "Continuing the journey",
    "At the eastern horizon",
    "Knowledge surrounding the traveler",
    "A further way",
    "Across a language barrier",
    "A community asks for protection",
    "Cooperation over tribute",
    "Iron, heat, and copper",
    "A barrier that holds",
    "Strength remains temporary",
    "From movement to gathering",
    "The warning made visible",
    "A refusal to hear",
    "Servants mistaken for protectors",
    "A searching question about loss",
    "Sincere confidence can be mistaken",
    "The weight of accountability",
    "Mockery and its outcome",
    "A different welcome",
    "Contentment without departure",
    "An ocean of ink",
    "Human messenger, undivided worship"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The chapter opens with gratitude for revelation. Its first description concerns integrity: the Book contains no crookedness. Before presenting unusual journeys and hidden outcomes, the reader is given a stable point of orientation in the revealed message.",
    "The Book joins warning with good news, and belief with good action. Its purpose is neither fascination with mysteries nor reassurance without responsibility. The stories that follow invite conduct shaped by both accountability and hope.",
    "This brief verse extends the promise beyond the temporary rewards familiar in ordinary life. Its permanence prepares a contrast with gardens, possessions, journeys, and achievements that may appear secure but remain vulnerable to change and loss.",
    "The warning now addresses the claim that God has taken a son. The chapter treats this as a question of truth about the Creator, while directing its argument toward the assertion rather than supplying a human portrait of God.",
    "Repeating an ancestral assertion does not turn it into knowledge. The verse challenges speech about God that lacks a reliable basis. Its emphasis on the seriousness of words anticipates later warnings against confident guessing about unfamiliar stories.",
    "The messenger's grief over rejection is acknowledged with striking tenderness. Concern for others can become overwhelming, but their response is not wholly within the caller's control. The verse checks consuming sorrow without asking him to abandon compassionate communication.",
    "Earthly beauty is presented as a setting for moral choice. The question is who acts best, not who accumulates the most attractive surroundings. Gardens and wealth later make this contrast visible through a conversation between two men.",
    "The richly adorned earth can become bare ground. Read beside the previous verse, this change exposes the fragility of the stage on which people compete. Possessions matter less as permanent security than as opportunities for responsible conduct.",
    "The cave narrative begins by placing its wonder within a much larger field of divine signs. The verse names the Cave and the Inscription without locating them. Curiosity about a particular site should not displace the story's teaching.",
    "The young people seek shelter and ask for mercy together with sound direction. Their prayer concerns how to live through danger, not merely how to escape it. The cave becomes a setting for dependence, resolve, and hope.",
    "Their hearing is sealed and years pass in the cave. The narrative presents preservation beyond ordinary human control, while leaving the physical process unexplained. Its focus remains the protection of vulnerable believers rather than a medical account of sleep.",
    "When the sleepers awaken, the elapsed time becomes a question. Human estimates will prove limited, even for those who experienced the event. The chapter repeatedly uses such limits to teach humility about knowledge and confidence in divine awareness.",
    "The account identifies the sleepers as young believers whose guidance increased. Their significance does not depend on names, social rank, or a verified monument. Faith is shown as something lived under pressure and strengthened through a sincere response.",
    "The young people speak openly about the Lord of heaven and earth. Their courage is described as firmness granted to their hearts. The verse connects inward conviction with public speech while refusing to divide ultimate worship among competing deities.",
    "The young believers question the evidence for their community's worship. Their argument turns on whether the claim has a clear warrant, not whether it is customary. Inventing religious authority is presented as a grave wrong in itself.",
    "Withdrawal from coercive surroundings leads toward a cave rather than a position of worldly strength. The promised spaciousness is mercy within difficulty. A confined refuge can therefore represent freedom to remain faithful when familiar society has become threatening.",
    "The movement of sunlight gives the refuge a vivid setting, but the passage does not supply coordinates. Its concluding focus is guidance. A reconstruction can suggest a sheltered cave without claiming that a modern candidate is the verified place.",
    "The account describes turning bodies, apparent wakefulness, and a dog at the entrance. These details create a sense of protected remoteness. The awe surrounding the scene discourages intrusion rather than inviting readers to invent additional physical particulars.",
    "Their first practical concern is food, bought discreetly with a silver coin. Uncertainty about time gives way to kindness and caution in action. The narrative makes an extraordinary awakening tangible through the ordinary needs of a small group.",
    "The sleepers fear violent persecution or forced religious return. This explains their secrecy and the significance of refuge. Their concern should be read within the danger described in the story, without projecting suspicion onto every unfamiliar community.",
    "Their discovery becomes a sign of resurrection, while the townspeople dispute what to build. The verse reports that discussion; reporting a proposed monument does not itself settle every later question about buildings, burial places, or devotional practice.",
    "Different numbers of sleepers are mentioned, and careless speculation is explicitly checked. The reader is directed toward limited, careful discussion. The lesson can be understood without turning an uncertain headcount into the main achievement of studying the story.",
    "A simple statement about future plans interrupts the narrative. Human intention is real, but tomorrow is not wholly under human command. The next verse completes the thought by placing plans within dependence on God and openness to guidance.",
    "Remembering God qualifies confident promises about the future. The verse also leaves room to recover after forgetting and to seek a better direction. Humility about tomorrow need not prevent action; it changes the spirit in which action is planned.",
    "The passage gives three hundred years and nine more. It does not anchor those years to a verified modern calendar date or a named reign. The following verse returns attention from chronological curiosity to God's fuller knowledge of the event.",
    "The duration discussion ends with divine knowledge, sight, hearing, and authority. None of the disputed details places the story outside that knowledge. The reader is invited to recognize the boundary between what the text gives and what remains unseen.",
    "After the cave account, the instruction is to recite the revelation faithfully. Its permanence contrasts with shifting human claims and uncertain reconstructions. Refuge is located ultimately in God, not in possessing every historical detail of an unusual narrative.",
    "The messenger is told to remain with devoted people instead of looking past them toward worldly display. This gives social force to the chapter's teaching about appearances. Sincere worship and companionship outweigh the prestige of wealthier company.",
    "The truth is announced and the listener's response is placed before them with a severe warning. The imagery concerns divine judgment, not permission for readers to inflict punishment. Freedom to respond does not make the response morally insignificant.",
    "The promise addresses people whose faith bears fruit in action. Against fears of obscurity or lack of worldly recognition, the verse assures that good work is not wasted. Its value does not depend on public applause or visible success.",
    "Gardens, flowing rivers, fine clothing, and rest describe a generous welcome. These are scriptural images of promised reward rather than a location available to map. Their beauty answers the social exclusion and danger encountered earlier in the chapter.",
    "A new example introduces two men and a richly productive property. Grapes, palms, and cultivated ground establish real material abundance. The problem will emerge in the owner's interpretation of that abundance, rather than in cultivation or beauty themselves.",
    "The gardens give their full yield, supported by a flowing river. Their success makes the owner's coming complacency understandable but not justified. Productive systems depend on conditions their apparent owner did not create and cannot guarantee forever.",
    "The owner measures himself against his companion through money and social strength. Gratitude has become competition. The verse exposes a familiar shift: possessions cease to be entrusted resources and become supposed evidence that one person is inherently greater.",
    "Entering his garden, the owner imagines its disappearance to be impossible. His confidence is described as wrongdoing against himself. The danger lies in a judgment that makes present prosperity seem exempt from the vulnerability shared by created things.",
    "He combines doubt about resurrection with confidence that any return would favor him. Present comfort becomes his unsupported prediction of future entitlement. The narrative challenges this assumption that worldly advantage automatically proves divine approval or guarantees a final reward.",
    "The companion answers by recalling the owner's dependent human origin. This brings the conversation away from comparative wealth and toward creation. A person formed through stages cannot reasonably treat personal power or possessions as the ultimate source of existence.",
    "The companion states his own worship without adopting the owner's boast. The verse's brevity gives the response steadiness: God is his Lord, without partner. Faithful speech here is personal, clear, and independent of the other man's greater resources.",
    "The companion proposes a different response to entering the garden: acknowledge God's will and the source of strength. He also names their unequal resources without accepting that inequality as spiritual defeat. Gratitude interrupts the conversion of property into superiority.",
    "The companion imagines both his own improvement and the garden's loss. These possibilities challenge the owner's certainty, rather than provide a general forecast about wealthy people. The point is that current conditions do not control what tomorrow may bring.",
    "The loss of accessible water offers another way the garden could fail. Its abundance rests on a resource that cannot be recovered merely by desire. The example draws attention to dependence hidden beneath apparently secure agricultural prosperity.",
    "The ruined garden makes the owner's earlier assumptions visible as mistakes. His gestures of regret contrast with his confident entry before destruction. The story turns on a changed understanding of dependence, not on admiration for the spectacle of loss.",
    "The social strength in which the owner boasted cannot reverse the outcome. Neither followers nor personal effort can supply unlimited control. This answers his earlier comparison directly: resources are useful, but they cannot carry the weight of ultimate security.",
    "The example closes by locating final protection, reward, and outcome with God. Its lesson reaches beyond one ruined property. The reader is asked to reassess what deserves trust when attractive and productive things remain subject to loss.",
    "A compact image follows vegetation from rain to dryness and dispersal. Life's beauty is neither denied nor made permanent. The changing landscape teaches proportion, helping the reader enjoy what is given without confusing its season with endless security.",
    "Wealth and children are acknowledged as attractive features of life. Enduring good deeds are then given a deeper measure of reward and hope. The contrast invites responsible affection and use, rather than reducing family or possessions to the whole purpose of living.",
    "The mountains are removed and the earth is exposed before a gathering that excludes nobody. The image overturns familiar boundaries and hiding places. Accountability is comprehensive; prominence and obscurity alike offer no exemption from the final meeting.",
    "People arrive before their Lord stripped of the protections they imagined permanent. The reminder of their first creation counters denial of an appointed meeting. The scene links return with origin and exposes the fragility of worldly self-sufficiency.",
    "The guilty are startled by a record attentive to small and great actions. Its completeness is joined to the assurance that God wrongs nobody. The image encourages seriousness about ordinary conduct without portraying judgment as careless or arbitrary.",
    "Iblis is identified as belonging to the jinn and refusing the command concerning Adam. The verse questions choosing an enemy as protector. Its moral focus is misplaced allegiance, not an invitation to invent the appearance of unseen beings.",
    "The alleged partners did not witness creation and are not needed as divine assistants. This removes another basis for granting them ultimate authority. Human claims about the unseen must not manufacture a partnership that revelation itself rejects.",
    "Those treated as divine partners cannot answer the desperate call made to them. The imagined relationship fails at the moment of need. The passage develops the chapter's question about refuge by contrasting presumed protection with its final absence.",
    "The guilty recognize the Fire and cannot find an escape. The warning is presented as part of the final judgment, not as a scene readers can reproduce or administer. Its purpose is to awaken responsibility before that recognition arrives.",
    "The Quran's many examples meet a human tendency toward contentiousness. Stories can illuminate, yet a determined reader can turn them into occasions for avoidance. The verse asks whether discussion is serving understanding or merely protecting an unchanged position.",
    "The passage questions resistance after guidance has come. Waiting for an unmistakable catastrophe can become an excuse to postpone belief and repentance. The invitation is to respond while there remains space for a willing and thoughtful change.",
    "Messengers bring good news and warning, while opponents attempt to defeat truth through false argument. The verse distinguishes communication from control over another person's response. Mockery does not remove the seriousness of what the warning asks listeners to consider.",
    "Rejection is connected with forgetting what one's hands have sent ahead. The problem is therefore moral as well as intellectual. The description of blocked hearing and understanding portrays the grave effects of persistently refusing a reminder.",
    "God's forgiveness and mercy are named before the warning about an appointed term. Delayed consequences should not be mistaken for approval, but delay does leave room for return. The verse keeps patience and accountability within the same frame.",
    "Earlier communities are recalled through wrongdoing and an appointed end. The verse does not name a particular excavation or supply a destruction date. Ruins can prompt reflection, but identifying an archaeological layer with this warning would require separate evidence.",
    "Moses resolves to travel toward the meeting of two waters, however long the search takes. A prophet is shown seeking knowledge. The Quran leaves the precise geography unnamed, so the lesson of determination does not depend on fixing a route.",
    "The travelers lose track of their fish at the meeting of the waters. What looks like an interruption becomes important to finding their destination. The narrative unfolds through remembered signs rather than providing a map that settles the location.",
    "Moses asks for food and acknowledges fatigue. These ordinary needs make the learning journey concrete. Spiritual purpose does not erase bodily limitation, and the request becomes the occasion for his companion to recall the sign they passed.",
    "The companion recalls the fish's remarkable departure near a rock. The admission includes his failure to mention it sooner. Learning here involves recovering an overlooked detail and speaking honestly, rather than pretending the journey has proceeded without confusion.",
    "Moses recognizes the remembered event as the sign they sought, and they retrace their steps. Going back is the right movement when a clue has been missed. The scene gives practical form to humility in the pursuit of knowledge.",
    "They meet a servant granted mercy and special knowledge. The Quran does not name him here; the transmitted account in Sahih al-Bukhari 122 calls him Khidr. That distinction keeps the chapter's wording separate from its accompanying report.",
    "Moses asks permission to follow and learn. The request is respectful and directed toward sound guidance, not possession of secrets for their own sake. The scene models the willingness of an accomplished person to become a learner.",
    "The teacher warns that Moses will struggle to remain patient. The warning prepares the reader for events whose meaning will not be immediately apparent. It also makes the conditions of their unusual journey explicit before they begin together.",
    "Patience becomes difficult when a person cannot grasp what is happening. The verse recognizes this tension rather than treating perplexity as imaginary. The following events will make clear why incomplete knowledge can provoke urgent and understandable moral questions.",
    "Moses promises patience while qualifying his intention by God's will. This echoes the chapter's earlier guidance about future plans. His sincere promise does not make him immune to difficulty; the journey will expose the distance between intention and experience.",
    "The teacher asks Moses to wait until explanations are offered. This condition belongs to their particular journey and the knowledge described in it. It should not become a general demand that people silently accept unexplained wrongdoing from human authorities.",
    "When the boat is damaged, Moses objects out of concern for its passengers. His response recognizes a serious apparent danger. The story preserves that moral alarm even though a later explanation will disclose circumstances he could not yet know.",
    "The teacher recalls his warning about patience after the first protest. The brief exchange keeps the narrative's central tension visible: Moses judges the action he can see, while its explanation remains withheld until their journey reaches its end.",
    "Moses acknowledges forgetting and asks not to be treated harshly. The response combines responsibility with a request for understanding. It presents learning as a relationship that can include correction, humility, and another opportunity after a genuine mistake.",
    "Moses strongly objects when a boy is killed, describing him as innocent of killing anyone. The verse does not minimize the apparent horror. The exceptional explanation later given is not permission for ordinary people to harm children on speculative grounds.",
    "The teacher repeats that Moses would not bear patiently with him. The repetition intensifies the difficulty rather than making the events ordinary. The reader, like Moses, still faces a gap between visible actions and the explanation yet to come.",
    "Moses sets a clear limit: another question will justify their parting. His statement accepts responsibility for the condition already agreed. The episode shows a learner recognizing that sincere intention alone has not enabled him to fulfill a demanding promise.",
    "A town refuses hospitality, yet the teacher repairs a failing wall there. Moses observes that payment could have been requested. The scene shifts from alarming damage to unexpected generosity, preparing an explanation about vulnerable owners who are absent.",
    "The journey together ends, but the explanation is not withheld forever. The teacher now turns from actions to their meaning. This transition matters: the narrative itself supplies its interpretation instead of asking the reader to invent hidden reasons.",
    "The boat belonged to poor workers threatened by a king who seized sound vessels. Its damage is explained as protection of their livelihood. The account draws attention to exploitation by power and to facts unavailable during Moses' first judgment.",
    "The boy's case is explained through knowledge concerning his believing parents and feared future oppression. This knowledge belongs to the exceptional narrative. People cannot claim similar certainty about a child's future to justify harm or override ordinary moral responsibility.",
    "The explanation speaks of a replacement child characterized by greater purity and tenderness. It describes a particular divine purpose disclosed within the story, not a human rule for evaluating children's lives. The grief and gravity of loss should not be trivialized.",
    "The wall concealed treasure belonging to two orphans until their maturity. The teacher explicitly denies acting on his own command. This conclusion distinguishes the extraordinary episode from personal intuition and brings the three explanations together under mercy and limited human knowledge.",
    "The next account responds to a question about Dhul-Qarnayn. The Quran gives a title and selected episodes without a birth name or dynasty. Identifications with particular ancient rulers remain interpretive proposals, not details supplied by this verse.",
    "Dhul-Qarnayn is granted authority and practical means. The story will judge power by how it is used among communities. Ability and access are therefore a responsibility rather than automatic proof that every action of a ruler is right.",
    "The ruler acts on the means available to him and follows a way. This short transition gives the account movement without supplying a complete itinerary. Its emphasis is purposeful travel within a larger story about the responsibilities of power.",
    "The narrative describes the sun as encountered at the western limit of his journey. Ibn Kathir explains the sunset as an observer's appearance, like sunset over water. The ethical question concerns his treatment of the people he finds there.",
    "Dhul-Qarnayn distinguishes wrongdoing from other conduct and recognizes a further return to God. His authority is therefore not presented as the final court of existence. The passage keeps earthly judgment within the larger frame of divine accountability.",
    "Belief and right action meet good treatment and an easy command. The contrast with the preceding verse makes conduct relevant to the ruler's response. Authority is not measured simply by severity, but also by its capacity for proportionate kindness.",
    "Another route carries the account onward. The repeated travel formula connects different communities without inviting certainty about their modern borders. The narrative selects encounters for their meaning, leaving most of the ruler's wider history outside its scope.",
    "The traveler reaches people exposed to the rising sun without shelter from it. Their situation is described briefly, without identifying a modern ethnic group. The account broadens the range of human conditions encountered by someone entrusted with power.",
    "The verse affirms that the ruler and his circumstances are fully known to God. Its brevity prevents the reader from confusing sparse narration with limited divine knowledge. Not every detail must be supplied for the episode's purpose to be understood.",
    "The repeated movement prepares the final encounter of the journey. Dhul-Qarnayn continues to use the means granted to him. The story's concern remains what he does when he meets human need, rather than a complete reconstruction of his travels.",
    "Between two mountain barriers, he encounters people with difficulty understanding speech. Communication is presented as an obstacle to cooperation, not evidence of lesser human worth. Their request nevertheless becomes intelligible enough for a shared protective project to begin.",
    "The people describe harm from Gog and Magog and offer payment for a barrier. The Quran does not identify these names with a present ethnic population. The scene concerns a threatened community seeking help through practical collective protection.",
    "Dhul-Qarnayn declines the offered tribute and asks instead for assistance in the work. He acknowledges that his existing resources come from his Lord. The response turns the community from passive purchasers of safety into participants in their protection.",
    "The barrier is built through materials, labor, and coordinated instructions. These concrete details portray practical skill in the service of protection. They do not establish that any surviving wall is the Quranic structure without independent and persuasive evidence.",
    "The completed defense cannot be climbed or pierced by those threatening the community. The verse records its effectiveness within the narrative. Its success will immediately be qualified by the ruler's acknowledgment that even strong works remain subject to God's promise.",
    "Dhul-Qarnayn calls the barrier mercy from his Lord and recognizes that it will not last beyond the appointed promise. Achievement does not become self-worship. Even a successful public work is held within gratitude and awareness of its limits.",
    "The scene passes from surging multitudes to the trumpet and final assembly. The narrative's horizon expands beyond any single kingdom or barrier. Human divisions and movements ultimately give way to a gathering in which everyone becomes answerable.",
    "Hell is presented openly in the account of judgment. What could previously be dismissed as a warning becomes unavoidable. The verse's brevity intensifies the transition from worldly argument to a reality encountered without the protective distance of denial.",
    "The warning identifies people who screened themselves from remembrance and would not listen. The concern is a sustained refusal of guidance, not a physical disability. Images of seeing and hearing describe the moral direction of attention.",
    "Created servants cannot replace God as ultimate guardians. The verse returns to a central theme running through the cave, gardens, and journeys: the search for reliable refuge. Misplaced dependence becomes especially serious when it reshapes worship itself.",
    "The reader is asked to consider who loses most through their own works. The question unsettles easy measures of success. Effort, confidence, and public achievement require examination, since activity alone does not establish that its direction is sound.",
    "People may believe their work is excellent while its direction has gone astray. The verse invites self-examination instead of complacent judgment of others. Confidence needs correction by truth and responsible conduct, rather than serving as its own evidence.",
    "Rejection of God's signs and the final meeting strips works of their claimed value in this judgment scene. The verse challenges the assumption that visible accomplishment automatically carries ultimate weight. Its measure is connected with truth, faith, and return.",
    "The passage links the final warning with rejection and ridicule of revelation and messengers. Mockery can keep a person from considering a serious claim honestly. The stated consequence belongs to divine judgment, not to private acts of punishment.",
    "Believers who act well receive Paradise as their welcome. The promise answers the preceding warning with hope grounded in both conviction and conduct. Throughout the chapter, enduring security is connected with this relationship rather than with property or prestige.",
    "The promised inhabitants do not wish to leave. Beyond permanence, the verse suggests contentment free of the restlessness that often accompanies earthly possession. It completes the contrast with the garden owner whose confidence in lasting satisfaction proved misplaced.",
    "Even an ocean used as ink could not exhaust the Lord's words. The image places all the chapter's lessons about limited knowledge within an expansive conclusion. What readers learn is real, yet it never amounts to mastery of divine knowledge.",
    "The chapter closes with the messenger's humanity, revelation, and the oneness of God. Hope for the meeting takes practical form in good work and sincere worship. Extraordinary stories return the reader to an ordinary life of responsible faithfulness."
  ],
  "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.",
  "glossNote": "Word meanings follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Repeated phrase glosses are divided into individual word senses to match the displayed Arabic; every adjustment is recorded in the source audit. These short hints complement, rather than replace, the complete verse translation."
}