I would make like

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Yunus a prophet
I would make like
I had it
No torture to come but to poor
Rich were excluded from
No diabetes to have
No cancer to them
No curse to them
But prophets
As Yunus when drowned
The whale didn't eat him
But kept him alive inside
How! If no air or food
I suggest he become amphibious
Never dead but to life came back
Then what of what is to compare?
What of what is right
That was a prophet
To have the paradise
and we are ordinary people
nothing to have but the curse

[Danik 2016]

Junus must be the biblical Jonas, who survived in the womb of a whale.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Junus must be the biblical Jonas, who survived in the womb of a whale.

Yes, I meant him
How was he survived if no air or food to eat inside the whale's womb? It is a true story as I heard

[Danik 2016]

I have no idea. These biblical stories are often surrounded by mistery. I only know that there are scholars who research to discover, what can be historically proved about them.

[YesNo]

I view the story of Jonah as a fable and not as history. I think this makes it more powerful. I don't have to wonder how something like survival in some big fish could happen. This allows me to pay attention to Jonah's character which I think is the point of the story. Jonah was initially disobedient refusing to warn Nineveh as he was told to do. When he finally agreed to obey, after being in the big fish, he reluctantly, begrudgingly tried to warn Nineveh. When Nineveh reformed he was unhappy. He wanted to see them destroyed. Right up to the end when that plant that shaded him was destroyed, Jonah didn't understand even though he was a prophet. It is a very powerful story. It is a story about Jonah's need to reform, not Nineveh's.

That the story is not literal history should not be viewed as a discredit to the religions that value this story. The story does not have to be literally true. Those religions are not falsified because it is a fable regardless what any atheist might claim. From my view those religions are enhanced by it being a fable.

[cacian]

such an intriguing piece although I agree with YesNo it can only be viewed as a fable for obvious reasons.
what the point of this fable is not clear to me.
Yunus anf Junus two different spelling right??