﴿ فَٱلْتَقَمَهُ ٱلْحُوتُ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌۭ ﴾

“[and they cast him into the sea,] whereupon the great fish swallowed him, for he had been blameworthy.”

Then the whale swallowed him while he was blameworthy that is while he was guilty of a blameworthy thing having gone to sea and embarked the ship without his Lord’s permission.