Maulana Wahiduddin Khan translation for Surah Al-Fil

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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan translation for Surah Al-Fil — Ayah 5

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105:5

فَجَعَلَهُمۡ كَعَصۡفٖ مَّأۡكُولِۭ ٥

Thus He made them like stubble cropped by cattle?¹

Footnotes

[1] Abraha was a Christian ruler of Yemen in southern Arabia in the sixth century A.D. Out of religious fanaticism, he attacked Makkah in the year 570 A.D. with a view to destroying the Ka‘bah by demolishing it. He had with him an army of sixty thousand soldiers and about a dozen elephants. That is why they were called ‘the People of the elephant’. As these people approached Makkah, the elephants refused to move ahead. Besides that, flocks of birds flew over them carrying pebbles in their beaks and claws. They showered these pebbles on Abraha’s army and the whole army was afflicted by a strange disease. The army was terrified and took flight. But many of its soldiers, including Abraha died on the way. This event took place in the very year in which the Prophet Muhammad was born. this was Almighty God’s way of showing that the Prophet was associated with domination. Whoever clashed with him or his religion would be vanquished.

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    "t": "Do the disbelievers not see how rain clouds are formed <sup foot_note=\"77646\">1</sup>",
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    }
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}

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<i class="s">(from the whisperers)</i>among the race of unseen beings<sup foot_note="81506">1</sup>and mankind.”


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