JONAH'S RESCUE FROM THAT DREADFUL PRISON VERSE NO.87ِ88

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 04)
Verses 89-90Verses 87-88

      We shall narrate the story of JONAH with more detail in the chapter of SÄFÄT, an abstract of which will follow here:ِ

      ZUN-NUN is the title of JONAH (YUNUS) for being swallowed by a whale. The Arabic, ``NUN'' means large fish or a whale. He was a prophet sent to the people of Nineveh. His people paid no heed to the prophet's warning. Jonah threatened them with God's wrath, and proclaimed Allah's punishment on them, but with no result. So he left his people in anger due to his failure:ِ ``And Zun-nun, when he went in anger, and deemed that We would not take it hard over him.''

      Instead of being steadfast and patient in conveying his message; he left his people in the field of combat with evil. He went in a voyage by sea, and the sailors threw him in the water as a man of bad omen in storm. Soon after, a whale appeared and swallowed Jonah. There in the darknesses of the sea, and that of the whale's stomach, he cried out unto our Lord that:ِ

 

      There is no God except You. Glory be to You. I was of the oppressors.''

      That is to say; I did oppress myself, as well as my people, whom I left them behind.

      God, the Merciful, and Forgiving, answered his prayer and forgave him, and delivered him from his dreadful grief:ِ

      ``So We answered him, and delivered him from Grief, and thus do We deliver the believers.''

      He was cast out on the sea shore, and was restored to life once again. When he returned to fulfil his mission, he found his people repented and converted by the advices of two learned men of the towns-folk.

      This sort of forgiveness and rescue was not exceptionally designed for Jonah. This is God's Methodical way that any believer who does something wrong, and then repents and returns to God to beg His pardon like Jonah, Allah the Compassionate will answer him of surety:ِ

      ``And thus do We deliver the believers.''

 

 

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