al-Fīl
Al-Fīl ( Arabic الفيل, DMG al-Fīl 'The Elephant') is the 105th sura of the Koran , it contains 5 verses . The sura is one of the early parts of the Qur'an that was revealed in Mecca . Their title refers to the first verse.
In terms of content, the sura deals with the unsuccessful campaign of the Christian King Abraha against Mecca , which, according to Arab traditions , is said to have taken place in the year of the elephant , the year of Muhammad's birth , around the middle of the 6th century. Abraha, King of Himyar in what is now Yemen , had built a magnificent cathedral in the city of Sanaa with the support of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian , which was intended to attract people from all over the Arabian Peninsula as a place of pilgrimage and in this function to replace the Kaaba in Mecca. He then went out with one or more war elephants to destroy the Kaaba, but the lead elephant refused to advance towards the sanctuary. At the same time, flocks of birds, which in the Quran Ababil ( Arabic أبابيل, DMG Ababil ) are called (in German swifts lat (. Apus apus)), intervened from the sky into the fight, pelted the troops Abraha with clay and glowing burning stones and inflicted a crushing defeat. Abraha is not mentioned by name in the Koran, but is mentioned in Ibn Ishaq's biography of the prophets and in Tabari's "Annals" .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Translated and commented by Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08023-9 , p. 587.
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