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? 203 about Nineveh and in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir and bring them into the fold of his faith and thus succeed in the mission God had entrusted to him. If it come about, the Messiah's similarity to the Prophet Jonah will have been established and the sign he promised to show become manifest to the world. But if it did not happen that way, the sign of Jonah would not have come to pass. WHERE IS THE PROMISED SIGN? In short, as the Prophet Jonah preached to his people after he came out of the fish's belly and succeeded in his mission, in like manner should the Messiah have, after his exit from the tomb, preached to the Israelites and brought them to the right 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