79* "As for the boat, it belonged to certain men in dire want: they plied on the water: I but wished to render it unserviceable, for there was after them a certain king who seized on every boat by force.  
| |80* "As for the youth, his parents were people of faith, and we feared that he would grieve them by obstinate rebellion and ingratitude (to Allah).  
| |81* "So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of conduct) and closer in affection.  
| |82* "As for the wall, it belonged to two youths, orphans, in the Town; there was, beneath it, a buried treasure, to which they were entitled: their father had been a righteous man: So thy Lord desired that they should attain their age of full strength and get out their treasure - a mercy (and favor) from thy Lord. I did it not of my own accord. Such is the interpretation of (those things) over which thou wast unable to hold patience."  
| |83* They ask thee concerning Zulqarnain. Say, "I will rehearse to you something of his story."  
| |84* Verily We established his power on earth, and We gave him the ways and the means to all ends.  
| |85* One (such) way he followed,  
| |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 Zulqarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."  
| |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).  
| |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."  
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