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The gourd plant

شجرة اليقطين

God grew over Jonah, sick on the bare shore, a gourd plant shading him with broad leaves — said to be the squash that grows without a stem.

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Mentioned in
Qur'an 37:146
Related to
Yunus (Jonah)

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The whale of Jonah· Nineveh· Ahl al-Hikma (People of Wisdom) lesson series· Al-Munjiyat (programme)· Bustan al-Amal (programme)· In the Courts of the Hadith Qudsi (television programme)· Sharh al-Hikam al-'Ata'iyya (lecture series)· Qissa wa 'Ibar (lecture series)

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  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
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The whale of Jonah

The whale that swallowed Jonah while he was blameworthy; he called through the darkness — 'There is no god but You; glory to You; I was among the wrongdoers' — and God answered him, cast him sick upon the bare shore and grew over him a gourd plant. In hadith Abu Ubayda's army ate of the beached anbar for days.