Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti — b. 791 AH / 1389 CE · d. 911 AH / 1505 CE Sunni Shafi'i

Tafsir al-Jalalayn al-Fil الفِيل (The Elephant) 5 verses · Meccan

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
105:1 ›
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ
Abdel Haleem
Do you [Prophet] not see how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Have you not considered an interrogative meant to provoke marvel in other words ‘marvel at’ the way in which your Lord dealt with the Men of the Elephant? who was named Mahmūd and the men were Abraha King of Yemen and his troops. He had built a church in San‘ā’ in order to divert pilgrims away from Mecca to it. A man from among the Banū Kināna defecated in it and stained its prayer niche with a deflowered virgin’s blood in contempt of it. Abraha then swore that he would knock down the Ka‘ba. So he approached Mecca with his troops riding Yemeni elephants with Mahmūd at the vanguard. But when they turned to destroy the Ka‘ba God unleashed upon them what He relates in His words

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105:2 ›
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
Abdel Haleem
Did He not utterly confound their plans
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

Did He not make — that is to say He did indeed make — their stratagem to destroy the Ka‘ba go astray ending up in failure and destruction

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105:3 ›
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Abdel Haleem
He sent ranks of birds against them
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

and unleashed upon them swarms of birds birds in droves one following the next it is said there is no singular form for it abābīl like asātīr; but some say that the singular is abūl or ibāl or ibbīl similar in constructed pattern to ‘ajūl miftāh and sikkīn

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105:4 ›
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Abdel Haleem
pelting them with pellets of hard-baked clay
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

pelting them with stones of baked clay

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105:5 ›
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Abdel Haleem
He made them [like] cropped stubble
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli & al-Suyuti

thus making them like devoured blades? like the leaves of crops which have been consumed trampled and destroyed by animals. God destroyed each one of them with his own stone inscribed with his name larger than a lentil in size but smaller than a chick-pea able to pierce through an egg a man or an elephant and go through the ground. This took place in the year of the Prophet’s birth s.

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