Or, do you think that the Fellows of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wonderful signs? / When the youths sought refuge in the cave, they said: Our Lord! grant us mercy from Thee, and provide for us a right course in our affair.

So when Our clear signs came to them, they said: This is clear enchantment.

If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste.

And truly We showed him Our signs, all of them, but he rejected and refused.

And most surely they turn them away from the path, and they think that they are guided aright: / Until when he comes to Us, he says: O would that between me and you there were the distance of the East and the West; so evil is the associate! / And since you were unjust, it will not profit you this day that you are sharers in the chastisement.

So when she came, it was said: Is your throne like this? She said: It is as it were the same, and we were given the knowledge before it, and we were submissive.