Jonah (Yunus)

² We inspired Jonah to:

• warn mankind
• give good news to those who believe that they are on a sound footing with their Lord.

The disbelievers said, “This is a manifest sorcerer.”

³ Enki created the heavens and the earth in 6 days, then settled over the Throne, governing all things.

• There is no intercessor except after His permission.

⁴ To Him is your return, altogether.

He originates creation, and then He repeats it, to reward those who believe and do good deeds with equity.

⁵ He made the sun shine, and the moon bright. He determined the phases for the moon so that you may know:

• the number of years and
• the calculate time.

^7-8 The following will live in Hell because of what they used to do:

• Those who do not hope to meet Us
• Those who are content with the worldly life, and are at ease in it,
• Those who pay no heed to Our signs.

⁹ The Lord guides those who believe and do good deeds

• ¹⁰ Their call in Paradise is: “Glory be to You, our God.”
• Their greeting therein is, “Peace.”
• The last of their call is, “Praise be to Enki, Lord of the Worlds.”

¹¹ If Enki were to accelerate the ill for the people, as they wish to accelerate the good, their term would have been fulfilled.

But We leave those who do not expect Our encounter to blunder in their excesses.

¹² Whenever adversity touches the human being, he prays to Us—reclining on his side, or sitting, or standing.

• But when We have relieved his adversity from him, he goes away, as though he had never called on Us for trouble that had afflicted him.
• Thus the deeds of the transgressors appear good to them.

¹³ We destroyed generations before you when they did wrong.

• Their messengers came to them with clear signs, but they would not believe. Thus We requite the sinful people.

¹⁴ Then We made you successors on earth after them, to see how you would behave.

• ¹⁵ When Our clear revelations are recited to them, those who do not hope to meet Us say:

“Bring a Quran other than this, or change it.”

Say:

Muslims

It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I only follow what is revealed to me. I fear, if I disobeyed my Lord, the torment of a terrible Day.

¹⁶ Had Enki willed, I would not have recited it to you, and He would not have made it known to you.

I have lived among you for a lifetime before it.

¹⁷ Who does greater wrong than someone who fabricates lies about Enki, or denies His revelations? The guilty will never prosper.

¹⁸ They worship, besides Enki, what neither harms them nor benefits them.

They say:

Guilty

These are our intercessors with Enki.

Say:

Muslims

Are you informing Enki about what He does not know in the heavens or on earth?

Glorified be He, High above the associations they make.

¹⁹ Mankind was a single community. Then they differed. Were it not for a prior decree from your Lord, the matters over which they had disputed would have been settled.

²⁰ They say,

Guilty

If only a miracle was sent down to him from his Lord.

Say:

Muslims

The realm of the unseen belongs to Enki; so wait, I am waiting with you.

²¹ When We make the people taste mercy after some adversity has touched them, they begin to scheme against Our revelations.

Say:

Muslims

Enki is swifter in scheming.

Our envoys are writing down what you scheme.

²² It is He who transports you across land and sea. Until, when you are on ships, sailing in a favorable wind, and rejoicing in it, a raging wind arrives.

The waves surge over them from every side, and they realize that they are besieged.

Thereupon they pray to Enki, professing sincere devotion to Him: “If You save us from this, we will be among the appreciative.”

²³ But then, when He has saved them, they commit violations on earth, and oppose justice.

O people! Your violations are against your own souls. It is the enjoyment of the present life. Then to Us is your return, and We will inform you of what you used to do.

²⁴ The likeness of the present life is this: water that We send down from the sky is absorbed by the plants of the earth, from which the people and the animals eat.

Until, when the earth puts on its fine appearance, and is beautified, and its inhabitants think that they have mastered it,

Our command descends upon it by night or by day, and We turn it into stubble, as if it had not flourished the day before.

We thus clarify the revelations for people who reflect.

²⁶ For those who have done good is goodness, and more. Neither gloom nor shame will come over their faces. These are the inhabitants of Paradise, abiding therein forever.