AL-KAHF (THE CAVE) : 83-101
18:83. They ask thee concerning Zul-qarnain. Say, "I will rehearse to you something of his story."
18:84. Verily We established hiower on earth, and We gave him the ways and the means to all ends.
18:85. One (such) way he followed,
18:86. Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."
18:87. He said: "Whoever doth wrong, him shall we punish; then shall he be sent back to his Lord; and He will punish him with a punishment unheard-of (before).
18:88. "But whoever believes, and works righteousness,- he shall have a goodly reward, and easy will be his task as We order it by our Command."
18:89. Then followed he (another) way,
18:90. Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun.
18:91. (He left them) as they were: We completely understood what was before him.
18:92. Then followed he (another) way,
18:93. Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely understood a word.
18:94. They said: "O Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief on earth: shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us and them?
18:95. He said: "(The power) in which my Lord has established me is better (than tribute): Help me therefore with strength (and labour): I will erect a strong barrier between you and them:
18:96. "Bring me blocks of iron." At length, when he had filled up the space between the two steep mountain-sides, He said, "Blow (with your bellows)" Then, when he had made it (red) as fire, he said: "Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten lead."
18:97. Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it.
18:98. He said: "This is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it into dust; and the promise of my Lord is true."
18:99. On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another: the trumpet will be blown, and We shall collect them all together.
18:100. And We shall present Hell that day for Unbelievers to see, all spread out,-
18:101. (Unbelievers) whose eyes had been under a veil from remembrance of Me, and who had been unable even to hear.
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