﴿ إِذْ أَبَقَ إِلَى ٱلْفُلْكِ ٱلْمَشْحُونِ ﴾

“when he fled like a runaway slave onto a laden ship.”

when he fled to the laden ship — after he became furious with his people as the chastisement which he had promised them did not come down on them; so he boarded the ship which then stopped out in the deep sea. The seamen said ‘There is a runaway slave here upon this ship who has fled from his master a casting of lots should expose him!’