Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 207
? 200 My messenger; he feared that he would be humiliated and that people would not accept him. Accordingly he made off but We put him in the fish's belly and kept him alive in it and later We ordered the fish and it disgorged him on land. We then made him go to Nineveh and he preached and was successful in his mission. " The Almighty God thus made it manifest that "whomso He raises as His Prophet, howsoever weak he may think himself to be and howsoever humble the people of the world may regard him to be, Allah the Mighty, has the power to make His message flourish through him and to make him popular with the people. This is the true sign of Jonah that was shown to the inhabitants of Nineveh. But if the Christian version of the Messiah's incident is accepted, he cannot be proved to have the slightest resemblance with Jonah. For, the true miracle of the Prophet Jonah was that he was granted a term of preaching and people witnessed that the self-same person who had made off fearing on account of his own weakness, proved a successful reformer and people on accepting him made an intrinsic change. As against this, when the Prophet Jonah entered the belly of the fish, the inhabitants of Nineveh did not see him. When he was alive in the fish's belly they did not see him then either: nor did they see him when he came alive out of the fish's belly. There lay then between him and the inhabitants of Nineveh a distance of some five to seven hundred miles,