ٱلْكَهْف : ٦١

  • فَلَمَّا But when
  • بَلَغَا they reached
  • مَجۡمَعَ the junction
  • بَيۡنِهِمَا between them
  • نَسِيَا they forgot
  • حُوتَهُمَا their fish
  • فَٱتَّخَذَ and it took
  • سَبِيلَهُۥ its way
  • فِي into
  • ٱلۡبَحۡرِ the sea
  • سَرَبٗا slipping away
But when they reached the junction between them, they forgot their fish, and it took its course into the sea, slipping away.
So when they reached a juncture between the two, between the two seas, they forgot their fish - Joshua forgot his luggage [leaving it behind] at the moment of departure, and Moses forgot to remind him - and so it, the fish, made its way into the sea, that is, it formed it - through God's forming it - by burrowing, that is, like [through] a burrow, which is a passage that is long and enclosed; this was [so] because God, exalted be He, held back the flow of the water [preventing it] from [engulfing] the fish and it [the water] withdrew from around it [the fish] and remained thus like a cleft without closing, and what was beneath it [the cleft] stood still.