Yusuf Ali
They ask thee concerning Zul-qarnain. Say, "I will rehearse to you something of his story."
Yusuf Ali
Verily We established his power on earth, and We gave him the ways and the means to all ends.
Yusuf Ali
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 Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."
Yusuf Ali
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).
Yusuf Ali
"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."
Yusuf Ali
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun.
Yusuf Ali
Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely understood a word.
Yusuf Ali
They said: "O Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief on earth: shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us and them?
Yusuf Ali
He said: "(The power) in which my Lord has established me is better (than tribute): Help me therefore with strength (and labour): I will erect a strong barrier between you and them:
Yusuf Ali
"Bring me blocks of iron." At length, when he had filled up the space between the two steep mountain-sides, He said, "Blow (with your bellows)" Then, when he had made it (red) as fire, he said: "Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten lead."
Yusuf Ali
He said: "This is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it into dust; and the promise of my Lord is true."
Yusuf Ali
On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another: the trumpet will be blown, and We shall collect them all together.
Yusuf Ali
(Unbelievers) whose eyes had been under a veil from remembrance of Me, and who had been unable even to hear.
Yusuf Ali
Do the Unbelievers think that they can take My servants as protectors besides Me? Verily We have prepared Hell for the Unbelievers for (their) entertainment.
Yusuf Ali
"Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works?"
Yusuf Ali
They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight.
Yusuf Ali
That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest.
Yusuf Ali
As to those who believe and work righteous deeds, they have, for their entertainment, the Gardens of Paradise,
Yusuf Ali
Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid."
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