The Cave
18. Al-Kahf
الكهف

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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.

Ali Quli Qarai