He replied, ‘Did I not tell you that you would never be able to bear with me patiently?’

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Moses said, ‘From now on, if I query anything you do, banish me from your company- you have put up with enough from me.’

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And so they travelled on. Then, when they came to a town and asked the inhabitants for food but were refused hospitality, they saw a wall there that was on the point of falling down and the man repaired it. Moses said, ‘But if you had wished you could have taken payment for doing that.’

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He said, ‘This is where you and I part company. I will tell you the meaning of the things you could not bear with patiently

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the boat belonged to some needy people who made their living from the sea and I damaged it because I knew that coming after them was a king who was seizing every [serviceable] boat by force

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The young boy had parents who were people of faith, and so, fearing he would trouble them through wickedness and disbelief

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we wished that their Lord should give them another child- purer and more compassionate- in his place

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The wall belonged to two young orphans in the town and there was buried treasure beneath it belonging to them. Their father had been a righteous man, so your Lord intended them to reach maturity and then dig up their treasure as a mercy from your Lord. I did not do [these things] of my own accord: these are the explanations for those things you could not bear with patience.’

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[Prophet], they ask you about Dhu ’l-Qarnayn. Say, ‘I will tell you something about him.’

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