Tazkirul Quran (English) · The Cave (Al-Kahf)
Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 18:89–91
The Cave (Al-Kahf)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(89) Then he followed yet another path, (90) until he came to the rising-place of the sun, where he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter from it. (91) Thus indeed it was. We had full knowledge of him.
Commentary
(a) Dhu’l-Qarnayn’s next expedition was towards the east of Iran. He reached a place where a most uncivilised people were living. The description that there was no barrier (shelter) between them and the sun means perhaps that they were nomads and were living on open ground instead of in properly constructed houses.