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Background
• Yemen power
• Great Flood 450
• Makkah: Religious center
• Trade agreements
• Yemen & Habasha allegiance
• Abraha: Trade & Politics
• Qulais threat
• No negotiation
Abraha’s Army
• 12000- 60000
• 9-12 elephants
Feel & Quraish
• Feel: Political & Military Peace
• Quraish: Economical Peace
• This surah is a gift to messenger even before
he is born
• Protection of qibla of future
• Not protection of Quraish
• Rhyme
ألم تر
• Lesson for all tyrants of all times
• Past/ present/ future: continuity
• Have you forgotten? Reminder
• Didn’t you see? Knowledge
• Visual & figurative
• Audience: Prophet, Kuffar, reader
• Popularity of story
• Quraish justified for false reasons
• أ: After all the favors of Allah?
• So why don’t you believe in Allah?
• Messenger is being given comfort
كيف
• Not what, but How?
• Detailed response
• Amazement: Feel vs Birds
• Plague
• Abraha survives but gets skin disease
• They don’t come back
• Proof of power of Allah
• Honor & Proof of Prophet: Before his birth
فعل
• Action, movement, incident, impact, actually
• عملvs فعل
• عمل: action with intent and effort
• Allah: فعلnot عمل
•
ربك
• Master means there is a slave
• هللاvs ربك
• Demanding that you become a slave
• Surat Feel is about Kaaba but no mention
• فليعبدوا رب هذا البيت
• آمنهم من خوف
• ك: Messenger being granted protection
• Quraish saw it but still worshipped idols
• Messenger didn’t see it but worshipped Allah alone. True slave to master
• Allah is not on their side
• Quraish realize that the same Allah who protected Kaaba is on
Muhammad’s side.
• How dare you put idols in Kaaba. He is the real Master.
اصحاب الفيل
• Singular: Mahmood
• اصحاب: companions
• Animal-like
• Companions of Messenger
• Elephants are better than them
• Elephants would turn away, the people didn’t get
it
• Wasn’t Quraish’s crime bigger than Abraha’s?
• Shirk is violating Allah’s right
• Kaaba was right for humanity
الم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل؟
• Continuity again
• جعلvs فعل
• Transformed the plan at the very end
• Rebellious dog leash
• كيدvs مكر
• كيد: secret evil plot
• مكر: deception, misleading
• What was the secret, he came openly?
• Used religion for trade benefit, eco-political
• Same problem with Quraish
• في: Put plan in utter waste, imagery
• ضل: to be lost
• ضلل: to put to waste over and over again
• Qulais, qibla, defecation, loss in Makkah
وارسل عليهم طيرا ابابيل
• Strange birds
• عليهم: shows domination, punishment
• اليهم: mercy, prophets
• طيرا: different species, horror
• ابابيل: Huge groups of flocks
• Sky became dark
ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل
• Continuous rain of pebbles
• From a distance
• Specific target, guided missile
• Stones made of penetrating mud pebbles
• Skin disease and infection
• First epidemic
• Falls on head and out of behinds
• Very graphic imagery, How?
فجعلهم كعصف مأكىل
• Transformed them like
• Winds that cut off leaves
• Leaves are eaten up and chewed straws
remains
• That’s what they look like
• Defenseless piece of food, no escape
• Torn apart and completely weak
• Winds can move it