Qur’an Cover-to-Cover: Day 18 (“Jonah”)
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. If you had to go to work today, then you can at least comfort yourself with the knowledge that I’ve waded through 109 verses to bring you this commentary on Surah 10:
Surah 10 – “Jonah” (Yunus)
The opening few pages of this chapter are pretty standard stuff:
- Muhammad’s critics object that Allah’s revelation would come through a man.
- Allah’s role as creator is emphasized and the natural world (the sun and moon in particular) are held up as signs pointing the people to God.
- We have the usual statements about the disbelievers heading to the Fire and the believers going to “Gardens of Pleasure”.
- Several times man’s fickle and forgetful nature is lamented and that Allah saves him from affliction, but yet he continues his path unaltered.