The Holy Quran 37:146 — Surah As-Saffat

Arabic text

وَأَنۢبَتْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَجَرَةً مِّن يَقْطِينٍ

Translation

We then caused a creeper to grow over him (to shade him as he regained his strength).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Deliverance from the belly of the fish and the gourd vine: the fish was commanded, and it brought Yunus ﵇ out of its belly and cast him onto open ground. Probably because sufficient food, air and so on had not reached him, he had become ill and frail. It is said that even the rays of the sun and flies and the like settling on his body were painful to him.

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