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El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...
[21] [22] The army of Abraha destroyed for attacking the Kaabah [23] is a reminder and an example that Allah can save His house (Al-Ka'bah) by destroying an army of 60,000 with elephants, through a flock of birds.
Al-Araf [2] [3] (Arabic: ٱلأعراف, al-ʾAʿrāf; meaning: The Heights) is the 7th chapter of the Qur'an, with 206 verses . Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation ( Asbāb al-nuzūl ), it is a " Meccan surah ", which means it was revealed before the Hijra .
The Battle of Surat, also known as the Sack of Surat, was a land battle that took place on 5 January 1664, near the city of Surat, in present-day Gujarat, India, between Shivaji, leader of the fledgling Maratha State and Inayat Khan, a Mughal commander. The Marathas defeated the Mughal military unit posted at Surat.
15-18 Noah's Ark, like the Quran, a sign to unbelievers who will not be warned; 19-22 The Ádites destroyed for calling their prophet an impostor; 23-32 The Thamud destroyed for rejecting their prophet as an impostor; 33-40 The Sodomites destroyed because they rejected Lot as an impostor; 41-42 Pharaoh and his people destroyed for rejecting ...
In Persian Sufi Illuminationism (see: Najm al-Din Kubra), all creation is a successive outflow from the original Supreme Light of Lights (Nur al-Anwar) (see: Nūr (Islam)). The cosmology of this tradition is a kind of Emanationism in which immaterial Light descends from the Light of Lights in ever-diminishing intensity.
A possible idiom, Surah Al-Qamar 54:1–2 also mentioned in Imru' al-Qais poems, [188] was understood as the physical disintegration and supported by hadiths [189] despite the Quran itself denies [190] [191] miracles, in the traditional sense. [note 8] The Quran is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic literature.
89:6 Did you not see how your Lord dealt with ʿĀd— 89:7 ˹the people˺ of Iram—with ˹their˺ great stature, 89:8 unmatched in any other land; 89:9 and Thamûd who carved ˹their homes into˺ the rocks in the ˹Stone˺ Valley;