Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

seizing every ship usurpingly.
80 As for the boy,
his parents were faithful [persons],
and We feared he would overwhelm them
with rebellion and unfaith.
81 So We desired
that their Lord should give them in exchange
one better than him in respect of purity
and closer in mercy.
82 As for the wall,
it belonged to two boy orphans
in the city.
Under it there was a treasure belonging to them.
Their father had been a righteous man.
So your Lord desired that they should come of age
and take out their treasure
— as a mercy from your Lord.
I did not do that out of my own accord.
This is the interpretation
of that over which you could not maintain patience.’

83 They question you concerning Dhul Qarnayn.
Say, ‘I will relate to you an account of him.’
84 Indeed We had granted him power in the land
and given him the means to all things.
85 So he followed a means.
86 When he reached the place where the sun sets,
he found it setting in a muddy spring,
and by it he found a people.
We said, ‘O Dhul Qarnayn!