The word(s) "zul-qarnain" appears 3 time(s) in 3 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(1) They ask thee concerning zul-qarnain. Say, "I will rehearse to you something of his story."

(2) Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."

(3) They said: "O zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief on earth: shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us and them?