وَٱتْرُكِ ٱلْبَحْرَ رَهْوًا ۖ إِنَّهُمْ جُندٌۭ مُّغْرَقُونَ
Watrukil bahra rahwan innahum jundum mughraqoon
And leave the sea in stillness. Indeed, they are an army to be drowned."
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Lessons from past peoples
44:24Ayah 159
11 ayahs in Ad-Dukhaan are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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And leave the sea behind once you and your companions have crossed it at rest still and calm until the Egyptians enter it indeed they will be a drowned host’ — he Moses was reassured by this statement — and they were indeed drowned.
Related Hadiths
‘Indeed in the sea are devils chained up, whom Sulaymān shackled and they are at the point of emerging. Then they will recite a Qur’ān upon the people.’
" And one who is drowned is a martyr."
"Break your bows during it, cut their strings and stick to the depths of your homes, and be like Adam's son."
“A
military expedition by sea is like ten expeditions by land.
The one
who suffers from seasickness is like one who gets drenched in
his own
blood in the cause of Allah.”
"Troops will not cease to attack this House until an army of them are swallowed up by the earth."
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