[18:5]

(A thing) whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had) their fathers, Dreadful is the word that cometh out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie.

[18:6]

Yet it may be, if they believe not in this statement, that thou (Muhammad) wilt torment thy soul with grief over their footsteps.

[18:7]

Lo! We have placed all that is on the earth as an ornament thereof that We may try them: which of them is best in conduct.

[18:8]

And lo! We shall make all that is thereon a barren mound.

[18:9]

Or deemest thou that the People of the Cave and the Inscription are a wonder among Our portents ?

[18:10]

When the young men fled for refuge to the Cave and said: Our Lord! Give us mercy from Thy presence, and shape for us right conduct in our plight.

[18:11]

Then We sealed up their hearing in the Cave for a number of years.

[18:12]

And afterward We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had tarried.

[18:13]

We narrate unto thee their story with truth. Lo! they were young men who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.

[18:14]

And We made firm their hearts when they stood forth and said: Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We cry unto no God beside Him, for then should we utter an enormity.

[18:15]

These, our people, have chosen (other) gods beside Him though they bring no clear warrant (vouchsafed) to them. And who doth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah ?