مشكاةMishkātQur’an
Surah 105

Al-Fil

The Elephant

The year Makkah was defended without a defender

An army with an elephant at its head marched on the Kaʿbah, and the people of Makkah went up into the hills and left it. What happened next they all remembered — it was within their own lifetimes — and the surah only has to ask: have you not seen?

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