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Al-Kahf 18:77

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فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ ٱسْتَطْعَمَآ أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْا۟ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُۥ ۖ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا

So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so he [i.e., al-Khiḍr] restored it. [Moses] said, "If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment."

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

فذهب موسى والخَضِر حتى أتيا أهل قرية، فطلبا منهم طعامًا على سبيل الضيافة، فامتنع أهل القرية عن ضيافتهما، فوجدا فيها حائطًا مائلا يوشك أن يسقط، فعدَّل الخَضِر مَيْلَه حتى صار مستويًا، قال له موسى: لو شئت لأخذت على هذا العمل أجرًا تصرفه في تحصيل طعامنا حيث لم يضيفونا.

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