Detailed Exegesis

Fanṭalaqā (“they both set out”): Inṭilāq means departure and going.(222)(221)

Al-safīna (“the ship”): Safn and safar mean to split and scrape the surface of something. A ship is called safīna because it splits the surface of the sea water.(223)

Kharaqahā (“he made a hole in it”): Kharq means to tear, break, cut, and make a hole in something in a destructive and unmeasured way, and is the opposite of khalq which means to create and bring into being in a measured and calculated way.(224)

Li-nughriq (“to drown”): Gharq means to sink in water and fall into calamity and misfortune. “Ghariqa fulān yaghraqu gharaqan” means he drowned and sank in water.(225)

Imran (“a grave thing”): Amr means an ugly deed(226), strange(227), a great and reprehensible matter(228), and in the verse under discussion, it means an important, astonishing and questionable matter. According to al-Zamakhsharī, amr means a great matter.(229)

Lā turhiqnī (“do not make difficult for me”): Rahaq means to encompass and overtake something.(230) A youth near the age of maturity is called “ghulām murāhiq” because the state of maturity is about to overtake him.(231)