Salamun AAala il yaseen (surah Assaaffat: 130)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(37:130) Peace be upon Elias. *74

Salaamun `alaaa Ilyaaseen

*74) The words in the original are: Salam-un 'ala El-ya-sin. Some commentators say that EI ya-sin is the other name of the Prophet Elias, just as Abraham is the other name of the Prophet Ibrahim; some others say that different versions of the Hebrew names were prevalent among the Arabs, e.g. one and the same angel was called Michal and Micha'il and Micha'in. The same has been the case with the name of the Prophet Elias also. In the Qur'an itself the same mountain has been called Tur Sina' and Tur Sinin.