Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 154
154 path. If he has not accomplished that, the sign of Jonah has not been implemented and it cannot be said that he showed the sign that the Prophet Jonah showed to his people. . The Ninevites saw with their own eyes that the man who had run away from their midst, because he thought himself to be inadequate, and evaded the call to deliver the message of his Lord, came back to them and they were compelled to believe in him. But if the Messiah fades out after the incident of the Cross, how does his similarity to Jonah come about and where is the sign that the people witnessed as had the. Ninevites? In other words the sign that the Messiah had to show as did the Prophet Jonah, which purported to demonstrate how the Almighty God gets His purpose served through such people as regard themselves to be inadeqate, he did not show, while the part that the Prophet Jonah did not show to the people, the Messiah did. Jonah entered the belly of the fish without the Ninevites having seen this sign. Jonah remained alive in the fish's belly but the people of Nineveh did not witness this sign either. Jonah came out of the fish's belly alive; again the inhabitants of Nineveh did not see this miracle. After this when Allah brought Jonah back to Nineveh, he demonstrated to the people his work, to wit, that nobody can run away from the Almighty God--he had run away but had been forced by God back to them. This was the sign the people saw and whoever reflects even in a superficial manner, would be compelled to glorify God and treat it as a wondrous miracle. Jonah did not consider himself to be worthy of the office of God's prophet and in panic he made off to another country. But God taking hold of him brought him back to the Ninevites and when he delivered the message, the very Ninevites about whom he had entertained