![]() ![]() Next, God abbreviates the well-known story in the form of a rhetorical question. And this was also the year in which Prophet Muhammad was born. It was as if it was their calendar.įor example they would say this thing happened in the year of the Elephant or it happened two years before the year of the Elephant. This incident was so well known to the Arabs that the year in which it occurred came to be known as the Year of the Elephant, and they used to use it to describe various lengths of time. This question also draws the reader’s attention to the incident and thus stresses its great significance. The punishment of God is not limited to the Hereafter and this event is an example that God can inflict punishment at any time. God addresses Prophet Muhammad, asking him, have you not seen how your Lord (God) dealt with the Army of the Elephant? God is asking Prophet Muhammad, don’t you remember, don’t you realize? When he was encouraged to move in a different direction the elephant cooperated but when turned towards Mecca he refused. The elephant trainers tried all they could to make the elephant move but he refused. It is said that the lead elephant sat down and refused to move towards the city. On his expedition he succeeded in defeating all the Arab armies until he reached Mecca.Īs Abrahah’s armies approached the city, God intervened. He formed an army, which included thirteen elephants, with the intention of demolishing the Holy House. This did not eventuate and Abrahah was furious. If the Arabs preformed the pilgrimage in San’a instead of Mecca, it would divert the economic benefits to Yemen. He established a splendid and expensive church in his capital because he had witnessed the love and enthusiasm the Yemeni Arabs had for their Holy House at Mecca, and he hoped to entice them away from there and to his capital at San’a. They established their rule there under the Abyssinian governor Abrahah. Various historical reports tell us that the Abyssinians had expelled the Persians from Yemen.
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