A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Ustadz  Sa’id  Ukur Nursi ( r.a. ) said, “The Prophet Jonah ( a.s. ) was Cast into the sea and swallowed by a large fish.   The sea was stormy, the night was turbulent and dark, and hope was exhausted.   But it was while he was in such a situation that his supplication, ‘There is no god other than You, Glory be unto You!   Indeed, I was among the wrongdoers,’ acted for him as a swift means of salvation.   Now we are in a situation many times more awesome and dangerous than that in which Jonah ( a.s. ) found himself.   Our ‘night’ is the future.   When we look upon our future with the eye of neglect, it is a hundred times darker and more fearful than his night.   Our ‘sea’ is this spinning globe.   Each wave of this sea bears on it thousands of corpses, and is thus a thousand times more frightening than Jonah’s ( a.s. ) sea.   Our ‘fish’ is the desires of our soul which strive to shake and de...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   This is the du’a of Prophet Jonah ( a.s. ).   سُوۡرَةُ الاٴنبیَاء … لَّآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبۡحَـٰنَكَ إِنِّى ڪُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ (٨٧)   … “There is no god but You: Glory to You: I was indeed wrong!” (Surah al-Anbiya’:87)   It is Said. in the Qur’an:   سُوۡرَةُ الصَّافات فَلَوۡلَآ أَنَّهُ ۥ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُسَبِّحِينَ (١٤٣) لَلَبِثَ فِى بَطۡنِهِۦۤ إِلَىٰ يَوۡمِ يُبۡعَثُونَ (١٤٤)   Had it not been that he (repented and) glorified Allah, he would certainly have remained inside the fish until the Day of Resurrection. (Surah asw-Swaffat:143-144)   The Qur’an has mentioned the story of Prophet Jonah ( a.s. ) which can be used as a lesson and application of the prayer of Prophet Jonah ( a.s. ) that Allah ( s.w.t. ) will relieve from His slaves hardships, troubles and calamities in times of urgent need, provided that the individual is a believer.   The real name of Proph...