أَمَّا

ٱلسَّفِينَةُ

فَكَانَتۡ

لِمَسَٰكِينَ

يَعۡمَلُونَ

فِي

ٱلۡبَحۡرِ

فَأَرَدتُّ

أَنۡ

أَعِيبَهَا

وَكَانَ

وَرَآءَهُم

مَّلِكٞ

يَأۡخُذُ

كُلَّ

سَفِينَةٍ

غَصۡبٗا

٧٩

“As for the ship, it belonged to some poor people, working at sea. So I intended to damage it, for there was a ˹tyrant˺ king ahead of them who seizes every ˹good˺ ship by force.

“And as for the boy, his parents were ˹true˺ believers, and we¹ feared that he would pressure them into defiance and disbelief.

So we hoped that their Lord would give them another, more virtuous and caring in his place.

“And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and under the wall was a treasure that belonged to them, and their father had been a righteous man. So your Lord willed that these children should come of age and retrieve their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. I did not do it ˹all˺ on my own. This is the explanation of what you could not bear patiently.”¹