18.11 - So We struck over their ears in the cave for a number of years. 18.12 - Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two parties counted how long they remained in time. 18.13 - We narrate to you their story in truth; indeed, they were youths who have believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance. 18.14 - And We bound their hearts when they stood up and said: Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, we will never call other than Him any god; for then we would have said an enormity. 18.15 - These, our people have taken other than Him gods; why do they not produce to them an obvious authority? And who is more unjust than one who forges against Allah lies? 18.16 - And when you stay away from them and what they worship except Allah, then retreat to the cave; your Lord will spread for you from His mercy and prepare for you from your affair a facility. 18.17 - And you see the sun when it rose visiting their cave towards the right hand, and when it set inclining away from them towards the left, while they were in a cavity thereof. That was from the signs of Allah. Whoever Allah guides, he is guided, and whoever He misguides, then you will not find for him a guardian to guide. 18.18 - And you would think of them awake while they were asleep; and We turn them to the right and to the left while their dog outstretching its forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned away from them fleeing and been filled by them with horror. 18.19 - And thus did We awake them that they might question one another. A speaker among them said: How long have you remained? They said: We have remained a day or a part of a day. (Others) said: Your Lord is most Knowing how long you have remained. So send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city, then let him look to which is the best of food and bring you provision from it, and let him make no one be aware of you. 18.20 - Indeed, if they come upon you, they would stone you or return you to their religion, and then you will never succeed.
