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Combining the Two Verses Regarding Jonah’s Stay in the Belly of the Fish

Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan

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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: What is reported regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted about His Prophet Yunus (peace be upon him)
(143) And had he not been of those who exalt Allah, (144) He would have remained inside its belly until the Day they are resurrected.فَلَوْلَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُسَبِّحِينَ لَلَبِثَ فِي بَطْنِهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ
[As-Saffat 37:143-144]
And in the other verse, He the Exalted said:
If not that a favor from his Lord overtook himلَّوْلَا أَن تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ
[Al-Qalam 68:49]
to remain in its belly until the day they are resurrected. He asks: How do we reconcile the two verses?

The Shaykh:
It is the verse that the mountain of speech repeated from its beginning.

The questioner:
Allah the Exalted says:
(143) And had he not been of those who exalt Allah, (144) He would have remained inside its belly until the Day they are resurrected.فَلَوْلَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُسَبِّحِينَ لَلَبِثَ فِي بَطْنِهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ
[As-Saffat 37:143-144]
. And He says:
If not that a favor from his Lord overtook himلَّوْلَا أَن تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ
[Al-Qalam 68:49]
in Surah al-Nisa.

The Shaykh:
he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ
[Al-Qalam 68:49]
, which is the wording of the second verse, and he inserted between them a rebuke due to its composition.

The questioner:
That is the end.

The Shaykh:
And Allah the Exalted knows best.
Source تفسير حزب المفصل، تفسير سورة القلم [ الآية 41 إلى آخر السورة ] — islamhouse.com (57:49)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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