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Jonah

The Man of the Fish · Yunus · يونس
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Yunus, peace be upon him, is named in four verses, and the Quran also calls him the man of the fish and the companion of the fish in two more. One surah bears his name. His people are the one town the Quran says benefited from its faith. The Quran is the final revelation, and it is the measure by which earlier books are read.

Named in the Quran
1.
Quran 4:163
“Indeed, We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him. And we revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, the Descendants, Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the book [of Psalms].”
Jonah is named among the prophets to whom Allah sent revelation.
2.
Quran 6:86
“And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot - and all [of them] We preferred over the worlds.”
Jonah is among those Allah preferred over the worlds.
3.
Quran 10:98
“Then has there not been a [single] city that believed so its faith benefited it except the people of Jonah? When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in worldly life and gave them enjoyment for a time.”
His people believed, and the punishment of disgrace was removed from them.
4.
Quran 21:87 · as the man of the fish
“And [mention] the man of the fish, when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, ‘There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers.’”
“The man of the fish” calls out in the darknesses: “There is no deity except You.”
5.
Quran 37:139
“And indeed, Jonah was among the messengers.”
“Indeed, Jonah was among the messengers.”
6.
Quran 68:48 · as the companion of the fish
“Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.”
Muhammad is told to be patient and not be like the companion of the fish.
In earlier scripture

The Quran

The final word
Quran 37:147–148
“And We sent him to [his people of] a hundred thousand or more. And they believed, so We gave them enjoyment [of life] for a time.”
Quran 21:88
“So We responded to him and saved him from the distress. And thus do We save the believers.”
Quran 68:49–50
“If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured. And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.”

The Bible

Where the Bible tells of him · The Book of Jonah, in the King James Version
Jonah 1:1
“Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying…”
Jonah 1:17
“Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
Jonah 2:1
“Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly…”
Jonah 3:5
“So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.”
Jonah 3:10
“And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”

Christians and Jews read these Bible passages differently. This page presents them as the Quran frames them, with the Quran as the final revelation and the measure for what came before.

Preview draft. Quran quotations follow the Sahih International translation and Bible quotations are from the King James Version; all will be checked against sources before publishing.