Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 144
144 a miracle. . Thousands go into the belly of the fish and nobody calls it miraculous. What was then the miracle of the Prophet. Jonas? His miracle was that he remained in the belly of the fish, in the care of God, so that his person should be a sign of. God to his people. Now let us see how the Prophet Jonas remained in the whale's belly three days and three nights. the belly of the fish does not constitute. STORY OF JONAS. We refer to the book of Jonas for this. It is mentioned. therein:"Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of. Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. (Nineveh was a big city. The L God commanded Jonah to go there and admonish its peopie). But Jonah rose up to flee unto. Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. " Instead of following the commandment of God like other prophets and going to preach to the people of Nineveh, it occurred to him that Allah being. Compassionate and Over-Generous, He issued warnings of impending chastisement first and later on, people humbly beseeching Him, forgave them, with the result that the prophets were treated as liars by the people, Jonah finding that he could not stand this, decided against going to Nineveh and proceeded to Tarshish instead. ) "But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship