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Surat Al-Kahf (The Cave) - سورة الكهف
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Sahih International
And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, "I will recite to you about him a report."
Sahih International
Indeed We established him upon the earth, and We gave him to everything a way.
Sahih International
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."
Sahih International
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.
Sahih International
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."
Sahih International
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.
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Until, when he reached [a pass] between two mountains, he found beside them a people who could hardly understand [his] speech.
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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?"
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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.
Sahih International
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."
Sahih International
So Gog and Magog were unable to pass over it, nor were they able [to effect] in it any penetration.
Sahih International
[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."
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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.
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And We will present Hell that Day to the Disbelievers, on display -
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Those whose eyes had been within a cover [removed] from My remembrance, and they were not able to hear.
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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.
Sahih International
Say, [O Muhammad], "Shall we [believers] inform you of the greatest losers as to [their] deeds?
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[They are] those whose effort is lost in worldly life, while they think that they are doing well in work."
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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.
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That is their recompense - Hell - for what they denied and [because] they took My signs and My messengers in ridicule.
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Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - they will have the Gardens of Paradise as a lodging,
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Wherein they abide eternally. They will not desire from it any transfer.
Sahih International
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."
