الرحلةThe Journey

يونس

Yunus (AS)

Yunus (Jonah)

Also known as: Jonah, Dhul-Nun

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Prophets Named in the Quran

Swallowed by the whale, he called out in the darkness and was saved.

Yunus left his people in anger before Allah permitted him to. He boarded a ship and was cast into the sea, where a great fish swallowed him. In the darkness he called out: 'There is no god but You, glory be to You; truly I have been among the wrongdoers.' Allah answered him and cast him onto the shore.

His people are the only nation in the Quran that believed as a whole after first rejecting their prophet, so the punishment was lifted from them. His supplication is one of the most widely recited du'as.

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Life journey

  1. Associated Nineveh نينوى
    In the Sirah, the Prophet ﷺ at Ta'if spoke of 'Nineveh, the town of the righteous man Yunus'.

In the Quran

10:98 21:87-88 37:139-148 68:48-50

Sources

  • The Quran (Yunus 10:98; al-Anbiya' 21:87–88; al-Saffat 37:139–148)
  • Ibn Hisham, al-Sira al-Nabawiyya (The journey to Ta'if)
  • Ibn Kathir, Qasas al-Anbiya'
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