Surah 105. Al-Fil, Ayah 5
| فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ |
| Transliteration | : | fa- jacala -hum ka- cas.f ma'kol |
| Pickthall | : | And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)? |
| Asad | : | and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubble -3 |
| Malik | : | thus rendered them like the chewed-up chaff. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw (of which the corn) has been eaten up. 6274 6275 |
Note - 3This passage is evidently continued in the next surah,
which, according to some authorities, is part of the
present one (see introductory note to surah {106}).
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Note - 6274A field, from which all the corn has been eaten up and
only straw with stalks or stubble is left, is a field
dead and useless. And such was the army of Abraha,-dead
and useless. Another possible rendering would be: "like
eaten straw and stubble found in the dung of animals".
The meaning would be the same, but much more emphatic.
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Note - 6275The lesson to be drawn is twofold. For the Pagan Quraish
of Makkah it was: Allah will protect His own; if you
persecute the holy Prophet, he is greater than the mere
building of the Ka'ba: will not Allah protect him? For
men in all ages it is: 'a man intoxicated with power can
prepare armies and material resources against Allah's
holy Plan; but such a man's plan will be his own undoing;
he cannot prevail against Allah'.
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A field, from which all the corn has been eaten up and only straw with stalks or stubble is left, is a field dead and useless. And such was the army of Abraha,-dead and useless. Another possible rendering would be: "like eaten straw and stubble found in the dung of animals". The meaning would be the same, but much more emphatic. |
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The lesson to be drawn is twofold. For the Pagan Quraish of Makkah it was: Allah will protect His own; if you persecute the holy Prophet, he is greater than the mere building of the Ka'ba: will not Allah protect him? For men in all ages it is: 'a man intoxicated with power can prepare armies and material resources against Allah's holy Plan; but such a man's plan will be his own undoing; he cannot prevail against Allah'. |
