Pearl of Wisdom
Once a man, in the presence of Imam 'Ali (AS), recited the above-mentioned Qur'anic verse after which the Imam said, 'The Harura' [i.e. the Kharijites] are from them.'
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib [as] Sharh Nahj al-Balagha li Ibn Abi al- Hadid, v. 2, p. 278
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AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT) |
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Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA 105.001
YUSUFALI: Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
PICKTHAL: Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?
SHAKIR: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant? 105.002
YUSUFALI: Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
PICKTHAL: Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
SHAKIR: Did He not cause their war to end in confusion, 105.003
YUSUFALI: And He sent against them Flights of Birds,
PICKTHAL: And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
SHAKIR: And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks, 105.004
YUSUFALI: Striking them with stones of baked clay.
PICKTHAL: Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
SHAKIR: Casting against them stones of baked clay, 105.005
YUSUFALI: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.
PICKTHAL: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?
SHAKIR: So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
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