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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-Feel: ٱلْفِيل 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 ...
1 God praised for the gift of Qur'an; 2 The Qur'an being a warning for the unbelievers and good tidings to the faithful; 3 The reward for the believers who do good deeds will be an everlasting abode ; 4-5 The Qur'an is a warning to those who say God has begotten, and the ignorance of their sayings; 6 Muhammad's grief for the disbelief of his people
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.
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.
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]
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The story of Dhu al-Qarnayn is related in chapter 18 of the Qur'an, al-Kahf, revealed to Muhammad when his tribe, Al-Quraysh, sent two men to discover whether the Jews, with their superior knowledge of the scriptures, could advise them on whether Muhammad was truly a prophet of God. The rabbis told the Quraysh to ask Muhammad about three things ...