The Cave
18. Al-Kahf
الكهف
Page #302
18:77
فَانطَلَقَا
حَتَّى
إِذَا
أَتَيَا
أَهْلَ
قَرْيَةٍ
اسْتَطْعَمَا
أَهْلَهَا
فَأَبَوْا
أَن
يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا
فَوَجَدَا
فِيهَا
جِدَارًا
يُرِيدُ
أَن
يَنقَضَّ
فَأَقَامَهُ
قَالَ
لَوْ
شِئْتَ
لَاتَّخَذْتَ
عَلَيْهِ
أَجْرًا
fa-nṭalaqā ḥattā ʾidhā ʾatayā ʾahla qaryatin-i staṭʿamā ʾahlahā fa-ʾabaw ʾan yuḍayyifūhumā fa-wajadā fīhā jidāran yurīdu ʾan yanqaḍḍa fa-ʾaqāmahū qāla law shiʾta la-ttakhadhta ʿalayhi ʾajran
So they went on until they came to the people of a town. They asked its people for food, but they refused to extend them any hospitality. There they found a wall which was about to collapse, so he erected it. He said, ‘Had you wished, you could have taken a wage for it.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Then they proceeded: until, when they came to the inhabitants of a town, they asked them for food, but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall on the point of falling down, but he set it up straight. (Moses) said: "If thou hadst wished, surely thou couldst have exacted some recompense for it!"
