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Behold, the youths betook themselves to the Cave: they said, "Our
Lord! bestow on us Mercy from Thyself, and dispose of our affair for
us in the right way!
Then We drew (a veil) over their ears, for a
number of years, in the cave, (so
that they heard not):
Then We roused them, in order to test which of the two parties was
best at calculating the term of years they had tarried!
We relate to thee their story in truth: they were youths who
believed in their Lord, and We advanced them in guidance:
Quran18: 10-13
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The story parallels the Christian version, recounting the tale of a group of
young believers who resisted the pressure from their people to worship others
beside God, and took refuge in a cave, following which they fell asleep for a
long time. When they woke up they thought that they had slept for only a day or
so, and they sent one of them back to the city to buy food. His use of old
silver coins revealed the presence of these youths to the town. Soon after their
discovery, the People of the Cave (as the Qur'an calls them) died and the people
of their town built a place of worship at the site of their burial (the cave).
Episode 9
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