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Al-Fīl (Arabic: الفيل, "The Elephant") is the 105th chapter of the Quran. It is a Meccan sura consisting of 5 verses. The surah is written in the interrogative form. [1] Have you not seen [O Prophet] how your Lord dealt with the army of the Elephant? Did he not frustrate their scheme? For he sent against them flocks of birds,
al-Fīl: The Elephant: 5 (1/3) Makkah: 19: 9: v. 1 [6] The Abyssinian attack against Mecca in the year 570 CE, the Year of the Elephant. [6] 106: Quraish: قُرَيْش Q̈urayš: The Quraysh: 4 (1/3) Makkah: 29: 4: v. 1 [6] The Quraysh, custodians of the Kaaba, should be thankful to God for protecting them from hunger and danger. [10] 107: Al ...
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.
The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj.It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the late 20th century.
Ababil (Arabic: أبابيل, romanized: abābīl) refers to the miraculous birds in Muslim belief mentioned in Surah Al-Fil of the holy Islamic book Quran that protected the Kaaba in Mecca from the Aksumite elephant army of Abraha, then self-styled governor of Himyar, by dropping small clay stones on them as they approached. [1]
Al-Kahf (Arabic: الكهف, lit. 'the Cave') is the 18th chapter of the Qur'an with 110 verses . Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is an earlier Meccan surah, which means it was revealed before Muhammad's hijrah to Medina, instead of after.
Most of these ten recitations are known by the scholars and people who have received them, and their number is due to their spreading in the Islamic world. [5] [6]However, the general population of Muslims dispersed in most countries of the Islamic world, their number estimated in the millions, read Hafs's narration on the authority of Aasim, which is more simply known as the Hafs' an Aasim ...