Rowwad Translation Center — 302

18:75 The man said, “Did I not tell you that you will never be able to have patience with me?”

18:76 Moses said, “If I ask you about anything after this, do not keep me in your company, for then you would be excused concerning me.”

18:77 Then they went on until they came to the people of a town[1]. They asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. They found there a wall that was about to collapse, but he repaired it. Moses said, “If you wished, you could have taken some payment for it.”

18:78 The man said, “This is the parting of ways between me and you. I will inform you of the interpretation of that which you could not bear with patience.

18:79 “As for the ship, it belonged to some poor people who worked at sea. I wanted to make it defective because there was a king ahead of them who seized every [good] ship by force.

18:80 “As for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them with his rebellion and disbelief[1].

18:81 So we hoped that their Lord would give them another in his place, more righteous and tender-hearted.

18:82 As for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was a treasure under it that belonged to them. Their father was a righteous man, so your Lord willed that they should reach their maturity and retrieve their treasure[1], as a mercy from your Lord; I did not do it of my own accord. This is the interpretation of that which you could not bear with patience.”

18:83 They ask you about Dhul-Qarnayn[1]. Say, “I will tell you something about him.”