Part of Tafsir al-Tabari (the series is complete)
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Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation | Episode (105) | Surat Al-Fil
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.
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Abridged by Dr. 'Aqil ibn Salim al-Shammari.
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Surah al-Fil.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
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Did He not make their plot go astray?
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“And send against them swarms of flying creatures,” (105:3)
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“Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,” (105:4)
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And He made them like eaten straw.
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Have you not considered, O Muhammad, with the eye of your heart?
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And seen through it how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
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Those who came from Yemen, having arrived from Abyssinia, intending to destroy the Ka'bah.
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Their leader was Abrahah al-Habashi al-Ashram.
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Did He not cause the efforts of the Abyssinians, the companions of the elephant, to destroy the Ka'bah to be in vain?
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Meaning, He caused their efforts to be lost regarding what they intended and attempted in destroying it.
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And your Lord sent against them birds in separate groups.
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Following one another from various directions.
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These birds, the flocks that Allah sent, pelted the companions of the elephant.
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With stones of baked clay.
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So Allah made the companions of the elephant like crops eaten by livestock and then excreted.
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It dried up and its parts scattered.
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This likens the severing of their limbs to the punishment that befell them.
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And the dismemberment of their bodies through it.
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To the scattering of the remnants of dung that resulted from the consumption of the crops.
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A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari.