If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste.

And if you should ask them who created them, they would certainly say: Allah. Whence are they then turned back? / Consider his cry: O my Lord! surely they are a people who do not believe.

And the dwellers of the Rock certainly rejected the messengers; / And We gave them Our communications, but they turned aside from them; / And they hewed houses in the mountains in security.

Or, do you think that the Fellows of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wonderful signs? / When the youths sought refuge in the cave, they said: Our Lord! grant us mercy from Thee, and provide for us a right course in our affair.

And Musa said: Surely I take refuge with my Lord and-- your Lord from every proud one who does not believe in the day of reckoning.

Most surely you are at variance with each other in what you say, / He is turned away from it who would be turned away.