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The sea

البحر

The sea is made serviceable: from it you bring ornaments you wear and you see the ships ploughing through it that you may seek His bounty; He loosed the two seas meeting with a barrier between them they do not transgress; its water is pure and its game lawful.

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Muwatta 45· Muwatta 2689· Qur'an 10:22· Qur'an 14:32· Qur'an 16:14· Qur'an 17:66· Qur'an 17:67· Qur'an 17:68· Qur'an 17:69· Qur'an 17:70· Qur'an 18:109· Qur'an 22:65· Qur'an 25:53· Qur'an 31:27· Qur'an 31:31· Qur'an 42:32· Qur'an 45:12· Qur'an 55:19· Qur'an 55:20· Qur'an 55:24

People and things also explored

The whale of Jonah· Ritual purity· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Muwatta, Book of Miscellaneous (al-jami')· Abu Hurayra· Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah· Al-Daraqutni· Ibn 'Abd al-Barr

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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The whale of Jonah

The whale that swallowed Jonah while he was blameworthy; he called through the darkness — 'There is no god but You; glory to You; I was among the wrongdoers' — and God answered him, cast him sick upon the bare shore and grew over him a gourd plant. In hadith Abu Ubayda's army ate of the beached anbar for days.