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(1) Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?[1992]
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[1992]- i.e., the army under the command of Abrahah al-Ashram which was accompanied by a huge elephant and came with the intention of destroying the Kaʿbah at Makkah.
(2) Did He not make their plan into misguidance?[1993]
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[1993]- Causing them to perish.
(3) And He sent against them birds in flocks,
(4) Striking them with stones of hard clay,
(5) And He made them like eaten straw.[1994]
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[1994]- i.e., husks which have been chewed by cattle. This event took place in the year of the Prophet's birth.