Yūnus عليه السلام · when there is no way out and it is your own fault
The call from the depths
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Sūrat Al-Anbiyaa
21:87 - Extent
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وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَٰضِبًۭا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَىٰ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ أَن لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾanta subḥānaka ʾinnī kuntu mina aẓ-ẓālimīna
When and why it was said
In the Qur’an (21:87), Yunus calls upon Allah, affirming tawhid and admitting his wrongdoing.
Qurʾān 21:87
Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
And mention Dhū’l-Nūn the one of the whale namely Jonah son of Amittai Yūnus bin Mattā when he went off enraged Dhā’l-Nūn is substituted by the clause idh dhahaba mughādiban by his people that is furious with them because of what he had suffered at their hands — even though he had not been granted permission by God to go off as he did — thinking that We had no power over him that is that We could not compel him to submit to Our decree in the way that We did by imprisoning him inside the stomach of the whale; or that We could not make circumstances difficult for him. Then he cried out in the darknesses through the darkness of the night the darkness of the sea and the darkness of the whale’s stomach that ‘There is no god except You! Glory be to You! I have indeed been one of the wrongdoers’ for leaving my people without Your permission.
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com
Reflection
In distress, return to Allah with tawhid and repentance.