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It has been mentioned in the Quran that the army was destroyed by small birds, sent by God, that carried pebbles that destroyed the entire army and Abraha perished. Surah Fil in the Quran contains an account of the event. [3] The year came to be known as the Year of the Elephant, beginning a trend for reckoning the years in the Arabian Peninsula.
Pharaoh watches a serpent devour a demon in the presence of Musa; from a manuscript of Qisas al-Anbiya, c. 1540. 1-2 Allah tells Muhammad not to doubt the Quran; 3 The people exhorted to believe in it; 4-5 Many cities destroyed for their unbelief; 6-9 Prophets and their hearers on the judgment-day; 10 The ingratitude of infidels; 11 The ...
Al-Ḥāqqah (Arabic: الحاقة) is the 69th chapter of the Qur'an with 52 verses ().There are several English names under which the surah is known. These include “The Inevitable Hour”, “The Indubitable”, “The Inevitable Truth”, and “The Reality”.
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 ...
[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.
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.
Abu Abd Al-Rahman al-Sulami writes, "The reading of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Zayd ibn Thabit and that of all the Muhajirun and the Ansar was the same. They would read the Quran according to the Qira'at al-'ammah. This is the same reading which was read out twice by the Prophet to Gabriel in the year of his death.
The Sword Verse (Arabic: آية السيف, romanized: ayat as-sayf) is the fifth verse of the ninth surah of the Quran [1] [2] (also written as 9:5). It is a Quranic verse widely cited by critics of Islam to suggest the faith promotes violence against pagans (polytheists, mushrikun) by isolating the portion of the verse "kill the polytheists wherever you find them, capture them".