سورة الطور

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): وَ الْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُورِ [And the swollen sea] is a sea in the heaven beneath the Throne.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): وَ الْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُورِ [And the swollen sea] is a sea that will be set ablaze on the Day of Resurrection.

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): al-Masjur means kindled/set ablaze.

The Imams (peace be upon them): Allah, on the Day of Resurrection, will turn the seas into fire and with them set Hell ablaze.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): When the people of Yunus (peace be upon him) harmed and tormented him, he cursed them... So the punishment descended upon them, to the extent that the tips of their spears reached it... [They repented] and cried out with a loud voice to their Lord and said: "We have believed in the Allah of Yunus (peace be upon him)." So Allah removed the punishment from them and sent it down upon the mountains of Amid. [On the other hand] Yunus (peace be upon him), who thought that they had been destroyed, set out toward the city, but [to his astonishment] he found them in complete safety; so he left the city in anger... until he boarded a ship... The ship was struck by violent tremors... Yunus (peace be upon him) threw himself into the sea, and a great fish swallowed him and carried him with itself through seven seas, until he reached وَ الْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُور [And the swollen sea], where Qarun is being punished.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever recites this [supplication of] covenant forty mornings will be among the helpers of our Qa'im (may Allah hasten his noble relief), and if he dies before his reappearance, Allah will bring him out of his grave [at the time of the reappearance]; and for every word of this supplication, He will grant him a thousand rewards and erase a thousand sins from [his record of deeds]. And that supplication is this: اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ النُّورِ الْعَظِیمِ وَ رَبَّ الْکُرْسِیِّ الرَّفِیعِ وَ رَبَّ الْبَحْرِ المَسْجُور [O Allah, Lord of the Great Light, and Lord of the Lofty Throne, and Lord of the swollen sea].

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): On the day when Imam Ali (peace be upon him) faced the people of Sham at Siffin, he raised his two hands toward the sky and said: "O Lord of the raised roof and the held-up expanse, which You have made the setting for the emergence of night and day, and the place for the movement of the moon and the sun, and the path of coming and going for the planets and the stars, and which You have made the abode of a group of Your angels who never grow weary of Your worship; and O Lord of this earth, which You have made the dwelling-place of humans and the place of movement of insects and cattle and the countless seen and unseen phenomena [that cannot be numbered]; and O Lord of the ships that move in the sea for the benefit of the people (Baqarah/164); and O Lord of the clouds that are made subservient between the earth and the sky (Baqarah/164); and O Lord of الْبَحْرِ المَسْجُور [the swollen sea] which You have made encompassing all the worlds; and O Lord of the high and firm mountains, which You have made as sturdy pegs for the earth and as a trustworthy support for creatures! If You grant us victory over our enemy, keep us far from transgression and make us firm on the path of truth; and if You grant them victory over us, then bestow martyrdom upon us and protect the rest of my companions from tribulation!"

Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him): In the period between the two blowings of the Trumpet, after the first blowing has been sounded, Allah sends down from a place lower than the sky of this world, from a filled and blazing sea about which Allah said: وَ الْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُورِ [And the swollen sea], [water] that is composed of a fluid like the semen of a man. That water pours upon the earth, and the semen-water mingles with the decayed dead, and those dead sprout up from the earth and come alive.

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): In the ziyarah of Amir al-Muminin (peace be upon him) it comes: I bear witness that you are al-Tur, and [you are] that inscribed Book, and [you are] the outspread parchment, and the sea overflowing with knowledge and learning.