65 Preface فَإِذا رَكِبوا فِي الفُلكِ دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخلِصينَ لَهُ الدّينَ فَلَمّا نَجّاهُم إِلَى البَرِّ إِذا هُم يُشرِكونَYusuf AliNow, if they embark on a boat, they call on God, making their devotion sincerely (and exclusively) to Him;1 but when He has delivered them safely to (dry) land, behold, they give a share (of their worship to others)!-Cf. 7:29, where I have slightly varied the English phrase according to the context. It was shown in the last verse that the life of this world is fleeting, and that the true life?that which matters?is the Life in the Hereafter. In contrast with this inner reality is now shown the shortsighted folly of man. When he faces the physical dangers of the sea, which are but an incident in the phenomenal world, he actually and sincerely seeks the help of God; but when he is safely back on land, he forgets the Realities. plunges into the pleasures and vanities of fleeting phenomena, and his devotion, which should be given exclusively to God, is shared by idols and vanities of his own imagination. (R).