Hazrat Younas A.S.
For the sake of Allah, We commend Him, look for His
assistance and request His pardoning. Whoever Allah manages none can deceive,
and whoever He permits to fall off track, none can control them aright. We take
the stand there is none deserving of love however Allah Alone, and we give
testimony Muhammad (saws) is His slave-hireling and the seal of His Messengers.
As indicated by written history, Prophet Yunus (Bible: Jonah)
(a.s.), the child of Matta, was sent by Allah Subhanah to caution the occupants
of a town called Nineveh. Nineveth was an extremely old town which is presently
no longer on the guide. Its site is accepted to be set apart by the two hills
on the left bank of the stream Tigris, inverse the city of present day Mosul
(Iraq) on the correct bank, around 230 miles north-north-west of the city of
Baghdad. Nineveh was an extremely old Sumerian town, maybe more established
than 3500 B.C. It turned into the capital of the renowned Assyrian Empire. The primary
Assyrian Empire under Shalmaneser I, around 1300 B.C., turned into the
preeminent power in Western Asia. The second Assyrian Empire emerged around 745
B.C., and Sennacherib (705-681 B.C.) embellished the town with numerous Public
Works. It was annihilated by the Scythians (supposed Medes) in 612 B.C. In the
event that as indicated by scriptural records the date of Jonah were thought to
be around 800 B.C., it would be between the First and the Second Assyrian
Empire; when the city was about wrecked for its transgressions, yet because of
its contrition was given another rent of sublime life in the Second Empire.
