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* وَمَا - ''wa-ma'' - and what | * وَمَا - ''wa-ma'' - and what | ||
* يَسْطُرُونَ - ''yasturoona'' - they write | * يَسْطُرُونَ - ''yasturoona'' - they write | ||
There is also a verse, where Jonah is called "man of the Nun", because he was eaten by a whale<ref>http://biblehub.com/library/marshall/the_wonder_book_of_bible_stories/the_story_of_jonah_and.htm</ref>: | There is also a verse, where Jonah is called "man of the Nun", because he was eaten by a whale<ref>http://biblehub.com/library/marshall/the_wonder_book_of_bible_stories/the_story_of_jonah_and.htm</ref>: | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|21|87}}|And [mention] the man of '''the fish''' (ٱلنُّونِ, ''al-noon''), when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, "There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers."}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|21|87}}|And [mention] the man of '''the fish''' (ٱلنُّونِ, ''al-noon''), when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, "There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers."}} | ||
So the Nun refers to a whale. | So the Nun refers to a whale <ref>Al-Jalalayn: | ||
* ذَا ٱلنُّونِ } صاحب الحوت} | |||
* {Man of the fish} companion of the whale (الحوت, ''al-hoot'')</ref>. | |||
There is not much information in the Qur'an, but as we'll see, it is necessary to understand the existence of the Islamic whale for understanding other verses of the Qur'an (for example, about mountains being like pegs). | |||
==Nun in the tafsir Ibn Kathir== | ==Nun in the tafsir Ibn Kathir== | ||