Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas 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
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ
Abdel Haleem
Do you [Prophet] not see how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant
Attributed to Ibn Abbas

And from his narration on the authority of Ibn 'Abbas that he said about the interpretation of Allah's saying (Hast thou not seen): '(Hast thou not seen) i.e. have you not been informed, O Muhammad, in the Qur'an (how thy Lord dealt with) how your Lord punished and destroyed (the owners of the Elephant) the people of the Negus who intended to destroy the House of Allah?

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أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
Abdel Haleem
Did He not utterly confound their plans
Attributed to Ibn Abbas

(Did He not bring their stratagem) their scheming (to naught) to utter loss,

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وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Abdel Haleem
He sent ranks of birds against them
Attributed to Ibn Abbas

(And send against them) and set on them (swarms of flying creatures) in succession,

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تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Abdel Haleem
pelting them with pellets of hard-baked clay
Attributed to Ibn Abbas

(Which pelted them with) which threw on them (stones of baked clay) like baked bricks.

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فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Abdel Haleem
He made them [like] cropped stubble
Attributed to Ibn Abbas

(And made them like green crops devoured) by worms?'

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