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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 Allah’s forming it - by burrowing, that is, like [through] a burrow, which is a passage that is long and enclosed; this was [so] because Allahu ta’ālā, 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.