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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We established his power in the land, and gave him the means to achieve everything
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He travelled on a certain road
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then, when he came to the setting of the sun, he found it [seemed to be] setting into a muddy spring. Nearby he found some people and We said, ‘Dhu ’l-Qarnayn, you may choose [which of them] to punish or show kindness to.’
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He answered, ‘We shall punish those who have done evil, and when they are returned to their Lord He will punish them [even more] severely
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while those who believed and did good deeds will have the best of rewards: we shall command them to do what is easy for them.’
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He travelled on
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then, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter from it
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And so it was: We knew all about him
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He travelled on
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then, when he reached a place between two mountain barriers, he found beside them a people who could barely understand him
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They said, ‘Dhu ’l-Qarnayn, Gog and Magog are ruining this land. Will you build a barrier between them and us if we pay you a tribute?’
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He answered, ‘The power my Lord has given me is better than any tribute, but if you lend me your strength, I will put up a fortification between you and them
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bring me lumps of iron!’ and then, when he had filled the gap between the two mountainsides [he said], ‘Work your bellows!’ and then, when he had made it glow like fire, he said, ‘Bring me molten metal to pour over it!’
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Their enemies could not scale the barrier, nor could they pierce it
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and he said, ‘This is a mercy from my Lord. But when my Lord’s promise is fulfilled, He will raze this barrier to the ground: my Lord’s promise always comes true.’
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On that Day, We shall let them surge against each other like waves and then the Trumpet will be blown and We shall gather them all together
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