018.001


Sahih International: [All] praise is [due] to Allah, who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance.



018.002


Sahih International: [He has made it] straight, to warn of severe punishment from Him and to give good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a good reward



018.003


Sahih International: In which they will remain forever



018.004


Sahih International: And to warn those who say, "Allah has taken a son."



018.005


Sahih International: They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie.



018.006


Sahih International: Then perhaps you would kill yourself through grief over them, [O Muhammad], if they do not believe in this message, [and] out of sorrow.



018.007


Sahih International: Indeed, We have made that which is on the earth adornment for it that We may test them [as to] which of them is best in deed.



018.008


Sahih International: And indeed, We will make that which is upon it [into] a barren ground.



018.009


Sahih International: Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder?



018.010


Sahih International: [Mention] when the youths retreated to the cave and said, "Our Lord, grant us from Yourself mercy and prepare for us from our affair right guidance."



018.011


Sahih International: So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years.



018.012


Sahih International: Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time.



018.013


Sahih International: It is We who relate to you, [O Muhammad], their story in truth. Indeed, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.



018.014


Sahih International: And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.



018.015


Sahih International: These, our people, have taken besides Him deities. Why do they not bring for [worship of] them a clear authority? And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie?"



018.016


Sahih International: [The youths said to one another], "And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allah, retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility.”



018.017


Sahih International: And [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [laying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allah. He whom Allah guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He leaves astray – never will you find for him a protecting guide.


