Sourate Al-Kahf · سُوْرَةُ الْكَهْفِ · Juz 16
Q 18:79
أَمَّا ٱلسَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتْ لِمَسَـٰكِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ فَأَرَدتُّ أَنْ أَعِيبَهَا وَكَانَ وَرَآءَهُم مَّلِكٌ يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصْبًا
Traductions
Pour ce qui est du bateau, il appartenait à des pauvres gens qui travaillaient en mer. Je voulais donc le rendre défectueux, car il y avait derrière eux un roi qui saisissait de force tout bateau.As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force.Tafsir
Concernant le bateau que tu m’as reproché d’avoir saboté, il appartenait à des gens faibles. Il leur servait d’outil de travail en mer mais ils ne pouvaient le défendre. J’ai voulu l’endommager afin qu’un roi qu’ils allaient rencontrer ne s’en empare pas. Ce roi prend de force à ses propriétaires tout bateau en bon état et le leur rend endommagé.
Lire Ibn Kathir (Ibn Kathir (abrégé, en anglais))
"As for the boat, it belonged to poor people working in the sea. So I wished to make a defective damage in it, as there was a king behind them who seized every boat by force. (79)
Interpretations of why the Ship was damaged
This is an explanation of what Musa found so hard to understand, and the appearence of which he condemed. Allah showed Al-Khidr the hidden reasons, so he said, "I damaged the ship to make it faulty, because they used to pass by a king who was one of the oppressors, who
يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ
(seized every boat), i.e., every good, sound boat
غَصْبًا
(by force.) 'So I wanted to prevent him from taking this boat by making it appear faulty, so that its poor owners who had nothing else could benefit from it.' It was also said that they were orphans.
Texte arabe : Tanzil (uthmani). Traductions : Muhammad Hamidullah (fr), Sahih International (en). tanzil.net