فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ ٱسْتَطْعَمَآ أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْا۟ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًۭا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُۥ ۖ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًۭا
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سُورَةُ الكَهۡفِ
English — Sahih International
So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al-Khidh r restored it. [Moses] said, "If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment."
اردو — مودودی
پھر وہ آگے چلے یہاں تک کہ ایک بستی میں پہنچے اور وہاں کے لوگوں سے کھانا مانگا مگر انہوں نے ان دونوں کی ضیافت سے انکار کر دیا وہاں انہوں نے ایک دیوار دیکھی جوگرا چاہتی تھی اُس شخص نے اس دیوار کو پھر قائم کر دیا موسیٰؑ نے کہا " اگر آپ چاہتے تو اس کام کی اُجرت لے سکتے تھے"
Bahasa Indonesia — Kemenag
Maka keduanya berjalan; hingga tatkala keduanya sampai kepada penduduk suatu negeri, mereka minta dijamu kepada penduduk negeri itu, tetapi penduduk negeri itu tidak mau menjamu mereka, kemudian keduanya mendapatkan dalam negeri itu dinding rumah yang hampir roboh, maka Khidhr menegakkan dinding itu. Musa berkata: "Jikalau kamu mau, niscaya kamu mengambil upah untuk itu".
Ibn Kathir
The Story of repairing the Wall Allah tells us that
فَانطَلَقَا
(they both proceeded) after the first two instances,
حَتَّى إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ
(till when they came to the people of a town,) Ibn Jarir narrated from Ibn Sirin that this was Al-Aylah. According to the Hadith;
«حَتَّى إِذَا أَتَيَا أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ لِئَامًا»
(When they came there, the people of the town were mean.) i.e., miserly
اسْتَطْعَمَآ أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْاْ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَاراً يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ
(they asked them for food, but they refused to entertain them. Then they found therein a wall about to collapse and he (Khidr) set it up straight.) means, he fixed it so it was standing upright properly. We have already seen in the Hadith quoted above that he set it up with his own hands, supporting it until it was standing straight again, which is something extraordinary. At this point Musa said to him:
لَوْ شِئْتَ لاَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْراً
(If you had wished, surely you could have taken wages for it!) meaning, because they did not entertain us as guests, you should not have worked for them for free.
قَالَ هَـذَا فِرَاقُ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنِكَ
(He said: "This is the parting between you and I) meaning, because you said after the boy was killed that if you asked me anything after that, you would not accompany me any further. So this is the parting of the ways between me and you.
سَأُنَبِّئُكَ بِتَأْوِيلِ
(I will tell you the interpretation) meaning explanation,
مَا لَمْ تَسْطِـع عَّلَيْهِ صَبْراً
(of (those) things over which you were not able to be patient.)
المُيَسَّر
فذهب موسى والخَضِر حتى أتيا أهل قرية، فطلبا منهم طعامًا على سبيل الضيافة، فامتنع أهل القرية عن ضيافتهما، فوجدا فيها حائطًا مائلا يوشك أن يسقط، فعدَّل الخَضِر مَيْلَه حتى صار مستويًا، قال له موسى: لو شئت لأخذت على هذا العمل أجرًا تصرفه في تحصيل طعامنا حيث لم يضيفونا.