Surah 18

Surah 18:60

"(Remember) when Moses said to his young man, ‘I shall not give up until I reach the junction of the two seas, or (else) I shall go on for a long time.’"

These words begin a curious story about Moses and a kind of riddler (vv. 60–82). What is the purpose of this story?

- from The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam