18.81 - So we (the companion and the parents) wanted that their Lord might substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy. 18.82 - And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphaned boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them, and their father was righteous; so your Lord wanted that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord; and I did not do it according to my command. That is the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience. 18.83 - And they ask you about Zul-Qarnayn. Say: I will recite to you about him information. 18.84 - Indeed, We have established him in the land and gave him of everything a cause. 18.85 - So he followed a cause. 18.86 - Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it (as if) setting in a muddy spring and found near it (the spring) a people. We (Allah) said: O Zul-Qarnayn! Either you torture (them) or else take among them goodness. 18.87 - He (Zul-Qarnayn) said: As for one who has done injustice, we will torture him, then he will be returned to his Lord; and He will castigate him with a horrid torture. 18.88 - And as for one who has believed and done good deed, for him is the reward of goodness, and we (Zul-Qarnayn) will say to him from Our command with ease. 18.89 - Then he followed a cause. 18.90 - Until, when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We have not made from it a shelter.
