The LORD’s word came to Yunus the second time, saying,
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.
So Yunus arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
Yunus began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!
The people of Nineveh believed Allah Ta'ala; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to Allah Ta'ala. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
Who knows whether Allah Ta'ala will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?
Allah Ta'ala saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. Allah Ta'ala relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.