(18:78) [Al-Khidh r] said, "This is parting between me and you. I will inform you of the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience. (18:79) As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force. (18:80) And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. (18:81) So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy. (18:82) And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure for them, and their father had been righteous. So your Lord intended that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. And I did it not of my own accord. That is the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience." (18:83) And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, "I will recite to you about him a report." (18:84) Indeed We established him upon the earth, and We gave him to everything a way.
