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37:142 -Then the big Fish did swallow him and he had done acts worthy of blame. 41224123
37:143 - Had it not been that he (repented and) glorified Allah 4124
37:144 - He would certainly have remained inside the Fish till the Day of Resurrection. 4125
37:145 - But We cast him forth on the naked shore in a state of sickness 4126
37:146 - And We caused to grow over him a spreading plant of the Gourd kind
37:147 - And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand (men) or more. 4127
37:148 - And they believed; so We permitted them to enjoy (their life) for a while. 4128
4120 Jonah ran away from Nineveh like a slave from captivity. He should have stuck to his post. He was hasty, and went off
to take a ship. As if he could escape from Allah's Plan! (37.140)
4121 The ship was fully laden and met foul weather. The sailors, according to their superstition, wanted to find out who was
responsible for the ill-luck: a fugitive slave would cause such ill-luck. The lot fell on Jonah, and he was cast off .
(37.141)
4122 The rivers of Mesopotamia have some huge fishes. The word used here is Hat, which may be a fish or perhaps a
crocodile. If it were in an open northern sea, it might be a whale. The locality is not mentioned: in the Old Testament
he is said to have taken ship in the port of Joppa (now Jaffa) in the Mediterranean (Jonah, i. 3), which would be not
less than 600 miles from Nineveh. The Tigris river, mentioned by some of our Commentators, is more likely, and it
contains some fishes of extraordinary size. (37.142)
4123 See n. 4120. (37.142)
4124 "But he cried through the depths of darkness, 'There is no god but Thee: glory to Thee! I was indeed wrong!' " (xxi.
87). (37.143)
A. Yusuf Ali Quran Subjects
Jonah
1. Jonah (or Jonas, or Yunus)
4.163, 6.86, 10.98, 37.139
2. (Zun-noon)
21.87, 68.48
JOSEPH:
See Yusuf – 6:84; Surah 12
12:4 - Behold Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the
moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me!" 16321633
1632 For the Parable all that is necessary to know about Joseph is that he was one of the Chosen Ones of Allah. For the
story it is necessary to set down a few more details. His father was Jacob, also called Israel the son of Isaac, the
younger son of Abraham, (the elder son having been Isma'il, whose story is told in ii. 124-129. Abraham may be
called the Father of the line of Semitic prophecy. Jacob had four wives. From three of them he had ten sons. In his old
age he had from Rachel (Arabic Rahil), a very beautiful woman, two sons Joseph and Benjamin (the youngest). The
place where Jacob and his family and his flocks were located was in Canaan, and is shown by tradition near modern
Nablus (ancient Shechem), some thirty miles north of Jerusalem. The traditional site of the well into which Joseph was
thrown by his brothers is still shown in the neighbourhood. (12.4)
1633 Joseph was a mere lad. But he was true and frank and righteous; he was a type of manly beauty and rectitude. His
father loved him dearly. His half-brothers were jealous of him and hated him. His destiny was prefigured in the vision.
He was to be exalted in rank above his eleven brothers (stars) and his father and mother (sun and moon), but as the
subsequent story shows, he never lost his head, but always honoured his parents and repaid his brothers' craft and
hatred with forgiveness and kindness. (12.4)
12:100 - And he raised his parents high on the throne (of dignity) and they fell down in prostration
(all) before him. He said: "O my father! this is the fulfillment of my vision of old! Allah hath
made it come true! He was indeed good to me when He took me out of prison and brought you
(all here) out of the desert (even) after Satan had sown enmity between me and my brothers.
Verily my Lord understandeth best the mysteries of all that He planneth to do: for verily He is
full of knowledge and wisdom. 17791780
1779 Certainly metaphorically: probably also literally. By Eastern custom the place of honour at a ceremonial reception is on
a seat on a dais, with a special cushion of honour, such as is assigned to a bridegroom at his reception. To show his
high respect for his parents, Joseph made them sit on a throne of dignity. On the other hand, his parents and his
brothers,-all performed the ceremony of prostration before Joseph in recognition of his supreme rank in Egypt under
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