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ⅩⅧ, 92-99. speech. They said, ‘ O u ʼl Qarnâin ! verily, Yâgûg and Mâgûg are doing evil in the land. Shall we then pay thee tribute, on condition that thou set between us and them a rampart ?’ He said, ‘ What my Lord hath established me in is better ; so help me with strength, and I will set between you and them a barrier.

‘ Bring me pigs of iron until they fill up the space between the two mountain sides.’ Said he, ‘ Blow until it makes it a fire.’ Said he, ‘ Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten brass .’

So they could not scale it, and they could not tunnel it.

Said he, ‘ This is a mercy from my Lord ; but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it as dust, for the promise of my Lord is true.’

And we left some of them to surge on that day over others, and the trumpet will be blown, and we will gather them together.