ٱلْكَهْف : ٩٠

  • حَتَّىٰٓ Until
  • إِذَا when
  • بَلَغَ he reached
  • مَطۡلِعَ (the) rising place
  • ٱلشَّمۡسِ (of) the sun
  • وَجَدَهَا and he found it
  • تَطۡلُعُ rising
  • عَلَىٰ on
  • قَوۡمٖ a community
  • لَّمۡ not
  • نَجۡعَل We made
  • لَّهُم for them
  • مِّن against it
  • دُونِهَا against it
  • سِتۡرٗا any shelter
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun [i.e., the east], he found it rising on a people for whom We had not made against it any shield.
until, when he reached the rising of the sun, the place where it rises, he found it rising on a folk, namely, Negroes (zanj), for whom We had not provided against it, that is, [against] the sun, any [form of] cover, in the way of clothing or roofing, as their land could not support any structures; they had underground tunnels into which they would disappear at the rising of the sun and out of which they would emerge when it was at its highest point [in the sky].