12.23.113
B.IV.1
AL-FIIL
(Gajah)
With the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
This chapter with respect to the events that took place, as far as we know, the year of birth of the Prophet. Although the story is well-known and widely touted at the time, but very few actual existing explanations about the incident. We know that other people are very envious of the inhabitants of Mecca and the Quraysh, who, as the guardian of the temple, holds a very respectable position among the Arabs. One of them is a rival Emperor Habasyah (now Ethiopia). Through their viceroy Abraha in Yemen, he built what is believed to be the Kaaba another, this time in San'a, to rival the Kaaba in Mecca. Kaaba is unattractive both in the number of pilgrims as expected the emperor, so he sent a large army, which was preceded by the elephants, to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca. He believes that the San'a will be the most important pilgrimage centers in different parts of the world.
ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بأصحاب الفيل
1. Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the elephant?
Relevance here is the confrontation between the power and enormous power, and direct opposition. The lesson to be drawn is that the real power can not be measured in the usual way. The destruction of the armies that had been sent to destroy the Kaaba is not a supernatural force but, ma-lah, is a natural phenomenon that echoes the birth of the Prophet-rays showed great beam in the darkness.
To understand the significance of this elephant we have to realize that whatever weapons that man at that time was weak and sparse. In a country where the fighters have at most only a few pieces of blunt spears and swords alone, then by having an elephant show that the owner was almost regarded as an emperor.
ألم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل
2. Did not he lead their strategy ends with kacan-turvy?
Kayd means 'cunning plot', or 'a cunning plan'. Did not God make their plot already-planned goes awry?
وأرسل عليهم طيرا أبابيل
3. And sends a flock of flying creatures to fight them,
Ababil means 'herd'. He does not necessarily refer only to a flock of birds, but also to the large amount of flooding.
ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل
4. Pelted them with stones of baked clay.
Sijjil means 'rock-like chunks of dried clay'. This word is associated with a word meaning keija sajala 'notes, write' or 'mendokurnentasikan'. There are many interpretations of this verse. We do not know what kind of this phenomenon, if it is really a storm that brought a flock of small-sized creatures, such as birds, which menimpuki this big army with stones (sijjil) that can penetrate their meat, or is it a disease that arrived suddenly coursed through them (many diseases such as measles and smallpox was not identified at that time), which may be carried by birds or insects. Despite the fact that these events are known and talked about everywhere, we still do not know the true nature of the attack because at that time human understanding of natural phenomena are not as bright as our understanding today. We only know that a great force is suddenly shattered completely as he approached the Kaaba.
فجعلهم كعصف مأكول
5. Then he made them like straw eaten.
As a result of the attack is that the numerous armies that once this becomes like rice straw or grass stubble remaining after the cut. In some explanation to say that after this destruction, the ground looks like a flat board made of thousands of enemy troops and the elephants they were lying on it. []
This chapter with respect to the events that took place, as far as we know, the year of birth of the Prophet. Although the story is well-known and widely touted at the time, but very few actual existing explanations about the incident. We know that other people are very envious of the inhabitants of Mecca and the Quraysh, who, as the guardian of the temple, holds a very respectable position among the Arabs. One of them is a rival Emperor Habasyah (now Ethiopia). Through their viceroy Abraha in Yemen, he built what is believed to be the Kaaba another, this time in San'a, to rival the Kaaba in Mecca. Kaaba is unattractive both in the number of pilgrims as expected the emperor, so he sent a large army, which was preceded by the elephants, to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca. He believes that the San'a will be the most important pilgrimage centers in different parts of the world.
ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بأصحاب الفيل
1. Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the elephant?
Relevance here is the confrontation between the power and enormous power, and direct opposition. The lesson to be drawn is that the real power can not be measured in the usual way. The destruction of the armies that had been sent to destroy the Kaaba is not a supernatural force but, ma-lah, is a natural phenomenon that echoes the birth of the Prophet-rays showed great beam in the darkness.
To understand the significance of this elephant we have to realize that whatever weapons that man at that time was weak and sparse. In a country where the fighters have at most only a few pieces of blunt spears and swords alone, then by having an elephant show that the owner was almost regarded as an emperor.
ألم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل
2. Did not he lead their strategy ends with kacan-turvy?
Kayd means 'cunning plot', or 'a cunning plan'. Did not God make their plot already-planned goes awry?
وأرسل عليهم طيرا أبابيل
3. And sends a flock of flying creatures to fight them,
Ababil means 'herd'. He does not necessarily refer only to a flock of birds, but also to the large amount of flooding.
ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل
4. Pelted them with stones of baked clay.
Sijjil means 'rock-like chunks of dried clay'. This word is associated with a word meaning keija sajala 'notes, write' or 'mendokurnentasikan'. There are many interpretations of this verse. We do not know what kind of this phenomenon, if it is really a storm that brought a flock of small-sized creatures, such as birds, which menimpuki this big army with stones (sijjil) that can penetrate their meat, or is it a disease that arrived suddenly coursed through them (many diseases such as measles and smallpox was not identified at that time), which may be carried by birds or insects. Despite the fact that these events are known and talked about everywhere, we still do not know the true nature of the attack because at that time human understanding of natural phenomena are not as bright as our understanding today. We only know that a great force is suddenly shattered completely as he approached the Kaaba.
فجعلهم كعصف مأكول
5. Then he made them like straw eaten.
As a result of the attack is that the numerous armies that once this becomes like rice straw or grass stubble remaining after the cut. In some explanation to say that after this destruction, the ground looks like a flat board made of thousands of enemy troops and the elephants they were lying on it. []
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