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01storyEzekiel · The chariot vision02researchAncient Text Research Kit03storyAt the threshold of Kesh · The temple hymn’s conclusion04storyA Vessel on a White Lotus · Amoghapāśa05storySamuel · The source of the voice06storySpeech that went unheard · Vāk and understanding07storyWind, Dust and the Body · An Incantation of Ningirim08storyMoses · Fire in the bush09storyElijah · After the fire10storyA Voice from the Depths · Jonah11storyJacob · The place he did not know12storyThe empty space · A wheel, a vessel and a room13storyJacob · Tell me your name14storyKena · That through which15storyThe yaksha · Power that is not enough16storyWho knows the beginning · The hymn of origins17storyThe Waters of Nun · Book of the Dead18storyZhuang Zhou · The butterfly dream19storyForm and Emptiness · Heart Sūtra20storyThe Kālāmas · When you know for yourselves21storyThe ending of hostility · Pairs22storyThe cessation of suffering · What can change23storyDiscern and choose · Thought, word and deed24storyMusa · Where the two seas meet25storyThe Plant That Could Not Be Kept · Gilgamesh26storyAfter the Flood · Gilgamesh and Genesis27storyNachiketas · The third boon28storyThe unborn · The body and its dweller29storyA Weapon That Can Be Recalled · Mahābhārata30storyThe Stayed Hand · Abraham and Isaac31storyJob · Before explaining32publicationSuffering is not a required course.33storyAn explanation is not pain relief.34storyWhat Shall I Bring? · Micah and Hosea35storyWho sinned? · A question on the road36storyTo follow · To save and to lose37storyLife within me · No longer I38storyThe transfiguration · A voice from the cloud39storyAre you Elijah? · Three Gospel testimonies40storyWords on the Gates · Deuteronomy41storyElijah and Elisha · On the other side of the Jordan42storyThe seven seals · Who can stand?43storyThe image of the beast · Breath and a name44storyThe river and tree after the end · After the visions of judgment45storyAt the foot of Sumeru · Four mountains46storyMani · The name Maitreya47storyWait here for Maitreya · A dialogue48storyBuddha Mani · The Moon God49storyA place by the water · The garden between records

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Musa · Where the two seas meet

Quran 18:60–82

60And Musa said to his young companion: “I will not cease travelling until I reach the meeting place of the two seas, even if I must go on for a long time.”

61When they reached the place where the two met, they forgot their fish, and it found its way into the sea as though through a passage.

62When they had gone further, he said to his companion: “Bring us our food. We have grown weary on this journey.”

63He said: “Do you remember when we took shelter by the rock? I forgot about the fish. Only Satan made me forget to mention it. It found its way into the sea in a wondrous manner.”

64He said: “That is what we were looking for.” And they returned, retracing their steps.

65And they found one of Our servants to whom We had given mercy from Us and whom We had taught knowledge from Us.

66Musa said to him: “May I follow you so that you may teach me some of what you have been taught as right guidance?”

67He said: “You will not be able to remain patient with me.

68And how will you be patient with what you have not encompassed in knowledge?”

69He said: “If Allah wills, you will find me patient, and I will not disobey your command.”

70He said: “If you follow me, do not ask me about anything until I begin to speak to you about it myself.”

71And they set out. When they boarded a vessel, he made a hole in it. Musa said: “Have you made a hole in it to drown those aboard? You have done a grave thing!”

72He said: “Did I not say that you would not be able to remain patient with me?”

73He said: “Do not take me to task for what I forgot, and do not burden me with hardship in my undertaking.”

74And they set out. When they met a boy, he killed him. Musa said: “Have you killed a pure soul, not in retribution for another soul? You have done an intolerable thing!”

75He said: “Did I not tell you that you would not be able to remain patient with me?”

76He said: “If I ask you about anything after this, no longer keep company with me. You have already received from me a reason to do so.”

77And they set out. When they came to the people of a settlement, they asked them for food, but they refused to receive them as guests. There they found a wall about to collapse, and he set it upright. Musa said: “If you had wished, you could have taken payment for this.”

78He said: “This is the parting between me and you. I will tell you the explanation of what you could not bear patiently.

79As for the vessel, it belonged to poor people who worked at sea. I wished to damage it: behind them was a king who seized every vessel by force.

80As for the boy, his parents were believers. We feared that he would burden them with disobedience and unbelief.

81And we wished their Lord to replace him for them with one better in purity and nearer in mercy.

82As for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city. Beneath it was a treasure belonging to them, and their father was righteous. Your Lord wished them to reach maturity and bring out their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. I did not do this of my own decision. This is the explanation of what you could not bear patiently.”

Reading notes

Moses objects to the damaged boat, the killing of the youth, and work performed without payment. Explanation is delayed until the parting, so the reader initially knows no more than the companion and follows his objections.

The passage calls the teacher a servant of God granted mercy and knowledge; the name Khiḍr belongs to its interpretive tradition. The closing statement that the deeds were not performed on his own initiative belongs to this particular narrative. It does not authorize an ordinary person to justify harm by claiming secret knowledge.

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