In this verse there is one word that most people get confused when they read it, how did Allah (SWT) said ' فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ' ' thinking We would not restrain him'? When we read this verse, we think that Allah said that Yonus (SAW) thought that Allah can't get him if he ran away!! which is a misconception, if we take a loot at other verses in different chapters we find that Allah mentioned the word 'نَّقْدِرَ' in more than one occasion: 1) in chapter 65: Verse:7: Allah said 'وَمَن قُدِرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقُهُ ' here the word ' قُدِرَ' means those whom Allah holds/prevent/tighten their Rezq/wealth. 2) in chapter 42, Verse: 12: Allah said ' يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُ ', here the word 'يَقْدِرُ' means the same thing tighten the wealth. so the acutal meaning of the verse in chapter 21, verse: 87: 'وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَٰضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ' that Yonus (SAW) thought that if he left his village and his people, that Allah will guide him or send him to another village or another people and not tighten on him, and the evidence that Youns (SAW) thought this way is from the next sentence of the same verse when he said ' فَنَادَىٰ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ أَن لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ', 'Then in the ˹veils of˺ darkness he cried out, 'There is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except You. Glory be to You! I have certainly done wrong.''.

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