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Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 37:140 | |
| < 37:141 37:139 > |
| Transliteration | Ith abaqa ila alfulki almashhooni |
| Literal | When he escaped/took shelter to the ship/ships, the full/loaded. |
| Yusuf Ali | When he ran away (like a slave from captivity) to the ship (fully) laden, |
| Pickthal | When he fled unto the laden ship, |
| Arberry | when he ran away to the laden ship |
| Shakir | When he ran away to a ship completely laden, |
| Sarwar | He abandoned his people and sailed away in a laden ship, |
| Khalifa | He escaped to the loaded ship. |
| Hilali/Khan | When he ran to the laden ship, |
| H/K/Saheeh | [Mention] when he ran away to the laden ship. |
| Malik | When he ran to the laden ship,[140] |
| QXP | When he fled like a runaway slave onto a laden ship. ('Abaqa' = Fled like a runaway slave. He migrated before Allah's Command. (21:87)). |
| Maulana Ali | When he fled to the laden ship, |
| Free Minds | When he escaped to the charged ship. |
| Qaribullah | He ran away to the laden ship, |
| George Sale | When he fled into the loaded ship; |
| JM Rodwell | When he fled unto the laden ship, |
| Asad | when he fled like a runaway slave onto a laden ship. [I.e., when he abandoned the mission with which he had been entrusted by God (see 21:87, which gives the first part of Jonah's story), and thus, in the words of the Bible (The Book of Jonah i, 3 and 10), committed the sin of "fleeing from the presence of the Lord". In its primary significance, the infinitive noun ibaq (derived from the verb abaqa) denotes "a slave's running - away from his master"; and Jonah is spoken of as having "fled like a runaway slave" because - although he was God's message-bearer - he abandoned his task under the stress of violent anger. The subsequent mention of "the laden ship" alludes to the central, allegorical part of Jonah's story. The ship ran into a storm and was about to founder; and the mariners "said everyone to his fellow, Come and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us" (The Book of Jonah i, 7) - a procedure to which Jonah agreed.] |
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