The Cave (Al-Kahf)
Verses 89-91 GROUP_704 18.89-91
89
ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا
Then he followed yet another path,
90
حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغَ مَطْلِعَ الشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَطْلُعُ عَلَى قَوْمٍ لَّمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُم مِّن دُونِهَا سِتْرًا
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
كَذَلِكَ وَقَدْ أَحَطْنَا بِمَا لَدَيْهِ خُبْرًا
Thus indeed it was. We had full knowledge of him.
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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.