Pharaoh's Body Preserved as a Sign, and the One People Who Believed in Time

Hizb 22 continues Yunus with a description of the reward awaiting the righteous as an increase beyond even the good they had already earned, and a matching description of humiliation for those who did evil. It retells the drowning of Pharaoh's pursuing army once more, adding that his body was preserved as a sign for later generations even after his last minute declaration of belief came too late to save him from the immediate consequence of his defiance.

The sura then turns to the people of Jonah himself, noted as the sole example in the Quran of a community that believed in time to be spared a punishment already bearing down on it, after every other prophetic account in the surrounding suras has ended in destruction for a people who rejected their warning. Yunus closes by instructing the Prophet that if he is ever in doubt about the message he carries, he should ask those who have read the earlier scriptures before him, and by affirming that guidance and misguidance are each a person's own responsibility rather than something forced upon them.

The hizb then opens Hud with its own declaration that this is a Book whose verses have been made distinct and clear, urging worship of God alone and turning to Him in repentance.