The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
The Prophet of Islam and other Prophets
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they leave their people only after the
dawah
work
has reached its completion. When he realized his
mistake, he sought forgiveness from God and
prayed. God granted his prayer. The whale then
brought him to a dry land and regurgitated him.
After this, Prophet Yunus came back to his people
and began calling them again to the path of
monotheism. This time, almost all of his people
entered the fold of the religion of monotheism.
Such an event as relating to a prophet has an
extremely important lesson for believers. This
incident has been thus described in the Qur’an:
A whale swallowed him, for he had erred; and
had he not devoutly praised God, he would have
stayed in its belly till the Day of Resurrection.
(37:142-144)
This goes to show how great is the responsibility of
dawah.
Those who fail to discharge this duty
properly, are destined according to the law of God,
to find themselves “in the whale’s belly.” And they
will never be saved from this great ordeal until they
repent and return to perform
dawah
work.
Otherwise they will remain in that plight until
