إِلَّا

عَجُوزٗا

فِي

ٱلۡغَٰبِرِينَ

١٣٥

except an old woman,¹ who was one of the doomed.

Then We ˹utterly˺ destroyed the rest.

You ˹Meccans˺ certainly pass by their ruins day

and night. Will you not then understand?

And Jonah was indeed one of the messengers.

˹Remember˺ when he fled to the overloaded ship.

Then ˹to save it from sinking,˺ he drew straws ˹with other passengers˺. He lost ˹and was thrown overboard˺.

Then the whale engulfed him while he was blameworthy.¹

Had he not ˹constantly˺ glorified ˹Allah˺,¹

he would have certainly remained in its belly until the Day of Resurrection.¹

But We cast him onto the open ˹shore˺, ˹totally˺ worn out,

and caused a squash plant to grow over him.¹

We ˹later˺ sent him ˹back˺ to ˹his city of˺ at least one hundred thousand people,

who then believed ˹in him˺, so We allowed them enjoyment for a while.

Ask them ˹O Prophet˺ if your Lord has daughters,¹ while the pagans ˹prefer to˺ have sons.

Or ˹ask them˺ if We created the angels as females right before their eyes.

Indeed, it is one of their ˹outrageous˺ fabrications to say,

“Allah has children.” They are simply liars.

Has He chosen daughters over sons?¹