ٱلْكَهْف : ٩٣

  • حَتَّىٰٓ Until
  • إِذَا when
  • بَلَغَ he reached
  • بَيۡنَ between
  • ٱلسَّدَّيۡنِ the two mountains
  • وَجَدَ he found
  • مِن besides them
  • دُونِهِمَا besides them
  • قَوۡمٗا a community
  • لَّا not
  • يَكَادُونَ who would almost
  • يَفۡقَهُونَ understand
  • قَوۡلٗا (his) speech
Until, when he reached [a pass] between two mountains, he found beside them a people who could hardly understand [his] speech.
until, when he reached between the two barriers (read al-saddayn or al-suddayn here and [likewise] further below [at verse 94, saddan or suddan]) - [these were] two mountains [lying] in the remote regions beyond the land of the Turks; Alexander sealed the breach between the two, as will be described [below] - he found on this side of them, that is, in front of them, a folk that could scarcely comprehend speech, in other words, they could only understand it after much agonising (a variant reading [for yafqahoona, 'comprehend'] has yufqihoona, 'be understood').