And the Exalted One said—after He had mentioned the story of the People of the Cave for which they had questioned you:
“ And they ask you about Dhu’l-Qarnayn. Say: I shall relate to you something of his story ” ⦗18:83⦘.
In other words, they ask you about that matter, and they ask you about this one as well.
The Quran is replete with accounts of bygone unseen realities—knowledge that no human being could possess except through the prophets to whom Allah disclosed it. This is nothing like the claims of the atheist philosophers, for these specific, detailed matters of the unseen can be transmitted only by a prophet, such as Moses or Muhammad. No one who alleges mystical unveilings—whether counted among Allah’s friends or otherwise—ever conveys anything of this nature. For that reason, such reports are among the unmistakable signs and distinctive features of the prophets, shared by none besides them.
The followers of all religions concur, as sound reason itself attests, that this