Surah Al-Qalam Verse 48

⁴⁸O My Messenger! Their excuses never end. Since the deniers will not give up their transgression, then you too continue, with patience, to invite them to the system of life for which they were created. Until Allah’s word about granting respite to the disbelievers is fulfilled, wait patiently for your Lord’s judgment in the face of the disbelievers’ mockery and persecution. Do not give in to despair. Do not be hasty like the Prophet Jonah, the companion of the great fish, who neglected his duty of calling people by leaving his post. Do not lose heart, give up hope, or abandon the struggle. Recall how he, worried, “My people do not listen to me. Calamity and misfortune will come upon them because of me,” left the community to which he had been tasked with explaining Our verses. Then he boarded a ship, but the ship was in danger of sinking because of a great storm that came up suddenly. The ship’s crew, thinking that this had befallen them because of a sinner among them, drew lots to find that person, and each time the lot fell to Jonah. Thereupon Jonah was thrown into the sea, and a great fish swallowed him. In the belly of the fish, in deep sorrow, he choked back his grief and called upon his Lord in prayer.