anger and thought We would not punish him. He called out in
the pitch darkness: "There is no god but You! Glory be to You!
Truly I have been one of the wrongdoers."
We responded to him and rescued him from his grief. That is
how We rescue the believers. (Surat al-Anbiya: 87-88)
In the Qur'an, Allah relates what would have happened to him if he
had not trusted in Allah and prayed to Him:
Had it not been that he was a man who glorified Allah,
He would have remained inside its belly until the Day they are
raised again.
So We cast him up onto the beach and he was sick;
And We caused a gourd tree to grow over him.
We sent him to a hundred thousand or even more. (Surat as-
Saffat: 143-147)
Allah rescued Yunus from a truly desperate situation. This is an
obvious sign that one must never despair of Allah's help. The experiences
of Yunus, peace be upon him, are a lesson for all believers: We must never
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