فَٱنطَلَقَا
حَتَّىٰٓ
إِذَآ
أَتَيَآ
أَهْلَ
قَرْيَةٍ
ٱسْتَطْعَمَآ
أَهْلَهَا
فَأَبَوْا۟
أَن
يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا
فَوَجَدَا
فِيهَا
جِدَارًۭا
يُرِيدُ
أَن
يَنقَضَّ
فَأَقَامَهُۥ ۖ
قَالَ
لَوْ
شِئْتَ
لَتَّخَذْتَ
عَلَيْهِ
أَجْرًۭا
٧٧
And so they travelled on. Then, when they came to a town and asked the inhabitants for food but were refused hospitality, they saw a wall there that was on the point of falling down and the man repaired it. Moses said, ‘But if you had wished you could have taken payment for doing that.’
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem