Surah Feel-The Holy Quran- The Incident Just Before the Holy Birth

          SURAH/SOORAH FEEL -INCIDENT OF THE ELEPHANT ATTACK JUST
BEFORE THE BIRTH OF THE HOLY PROPHET

صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم

Kabah

The Elephant [Feel] incident was the
story behind the Soorah Al Feel of the Holy Quraan; It was the incident that
took place in the month of Al-Muharram,55- 92-days before the Holy Prophet
صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم graced
this  earth.

The Yemeni Governor of King Najashi
of Ehtiopia was making plans to attack the Holy Kabaah. He saw how the Arabs made their
pilgrimage to Al-Kabaah, so he built a large church in San’a to attract the
Arab pilgrims to it to the exclusion of Makaah.

He sent out a great army of warriors
to demolish Al-Kabaah and chose the biggest elephant for himself. He gathered
his army of men and elephants and proceeded in the direction of Makaah;
however, the elephants resisted going beyond Wadi Mehsar, a place 30 miles from
Makaah. Nevertheless, the army continued to move and when the inhabitants of Makaah
saw the elephants, they became afraid and went into hiding. However, Hazrat
Abdul Muttalib, the Holy Prophet’s grandfather, and twelve other relatives
stayed in Makaah to fight against Abrahah. Abrahah’s soldiers stole some of
Abdul Muttalib’s camels. The Holy Prophet’s grandfather got on his horse and
made his way to Abrahah, who came out of his tent to greet him.

 “Your soldiers have taken my camels”, said
Abdul Muttalib to which Abrahah mockingly responded saying that Abdul Muttalib
you should worry about the Kabaah and not some paltry camels, because we have come
to raze the Kabaah.

To this Abdul Muttalib responded that
the Owner of the Kabaah is responsible for it and he had come to take his
camels, which he is responsible for.  Upon
hearing this Abrahah became silent and returned his camels. Abdul Muttalib brought
his camels home and with Hazrat Aaminah went to the Kabaah Shareef and prayed

“O Lord of the Kabaah, O Creator of
the Universe, You are The Hearing and The Seeing, You are The All Knowing! You
know that an enemy has come with the intention to destroy your pure House.

My Lord! You had given me the glad
tidings that there will shine a light in Your House. My Lord! If that Light is
in Aaminah’s womb, then we ask for His sake [waseela]! O King! We are not
afraid of anyone except You. O King! Save the sanctity of Your house from the
enemy and the honor of the family of [Hazrat] Ismaail.”

At sunrise Abrahah began to make
preparations to attack the Holy Kabaah and the prayer that was asked by the
waseela of the Holy Prophet Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was accepted
immediately.

The mahout trainer beat the elephants
to try to make them continue towards the Kabaah, but they refused. Abrahah’s elephant
Mahmoud would not get up at all. This frightened Abrahah and he consequently
ordered his army to march by foot. He had just issued this command that a flock
of Martin Swallows [Ababeel] came from the direction of Jeddah. The birds
dropped these stones on the Abyssinians killing them. Some Abyssinians fled
while death pursued them every way they went. They tried to go back the way
they had come to Yemen. Allaah the Almighty also sent a severe wind that added
to the speed and strength of the stones and caused most of the army to perish. Allaah
Almighty describes this fateful event in His Noble Quraan:

Surah/Soorah Al Feel and the Elephant
incident

بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ
الرَّحِیۡمِ

اَلَمۡ تَرَ کَیۡفَ فَعَلَ
رَبُّکَ بِاَصۡحٰبِ الۡفِیۡلِ

اَلَمۡ یَجۡعَلۡ کَیۡدَہُمۡ
فِیۡ تَضۡلِیۡلٍ

وَّ اَرۡسَلَ عَلَیۡہِمۡ
طَیۡرًا اَبَابِیۡلَ

تَرۡمِیۡہِمۡ بِحِجَارَۃٍ
مِّنۡ سِجِّیۡلٍ

فَجَعَلَہُمۡ کَعَصۡفٍ مَّاۡکُوۡلٍ

[Al-Quraan, Chapter al-Feel, 105:1]

“Have you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon
him)) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?

Did He not make their plot go astray?

And He sent against them birds, (Ababeel)
in flocks.

Striking them with stones of Sijjil
(baked clay).

And He made them like (an empty field
of) stalks

(of which the corn has been eaten up
by cattle)”