Tafsir Ibn Abbas: As-Saaffaat, Ayah 143
فَلَوْلَآ أَنَّهُۥ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُسَبِّحِينَ
And had he not been of those who exalt Allah,
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And had he not been one of those who glorify God that is to say those who make remembrance of God for inside the whale’s belly he was repeatedly saying the words ‘There is no god except You. Glory be to You! I have indeed been one of the wrongdoers’ Q. 2187
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(And had he not been one of those who glorify (Allah)) had he not been of those who prayed before that