The Cave
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[18:109]
SAY: "If all the sea were ink for my Sustainer’s words, the sea would indeed be exhausted ere my Sustainer’s words are exhausted! And [thus it would be] if We were to add to it sea upon sea."

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* v.109 : Lit., “if We were to produce the like of it [i.e., of the sea] in addition.” It is to be noted that, as pointed out by Zamakhsharī, the term al-bahr (“the sea”) is used here in a generic sense, comprising all the seas that exist: hence, the expression “the like of it” has been rendered by me as “sea upon sea.” (See also 31:27).