The Cave
18. Al-Kahf
الكهف
Page #294
18:12
ثُمَّ
بَعَثْنَاهُمْ
لِنَعْلَمَ
أَيُّ
الْحِزْبَيْنِ
أَحْصَى
لِمَا
لَبِثُوا
أَمَدًا
thumma baʿathnāhum li-naʿlama ʾayyu l-ḥizbayni ʾaḥṣā li-mā labithū ʾamadan
Then We roused them, in order to test which of the two parties was best at calculating the term of years they had tarried!
— Abdullah Yusufali
Then We aroused them that We might know which of the two groups better reckoned the period they had stayed.