Birds Throwing Stones
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This we feel, based on our understanding of the great work of grammar and lexicon, is rather reflective of the creation of the human as a superior creation among all the other creations, akin to the making of a stallion in the entire herd of creations.
This has been told in plain and straight words
http//haqeeqat.org.pk/English%20Tafsir%20e%20Haqeeqat/00.Arabic%20Text/017.%20Al%20Israa/17.70.gif
And indeed We have hnoured and dignified the posterity of Adam and We have made them ride in the Earth and the Water Reservoir;http//haqeeqat.org.pk/English%20Tafsir%20e%20Haqeeqat/00.Arabic%20Text/017.%20Al%20Israa/017.E%20Al%20Israa.htm
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Peace,
I am more traditionalist then and I think this story has more to do with historical events, one of the hypothesis I found is a volcan eruption that killed the army of the elefant which did not occur in Mecca but more in North West Arabia.
This is supported by the 2 following points
1- To cross the desert to get to Mecca with an elefant is not easy thing to do, knowing the quantity of water needed for an elefant to survive in the desert! (sunni version)
2- Scientific research can show that an eruption occured in North West Arabia in 640AD and killed many people and it is on the road to Sirya.
3- No way to proof presence of elefant in Yemen (sunni version)please see http//www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0301-02=&volpage=photos&photo=104063
an other hypothesis is the Jordan river battle between the arabs and the Byzantins (the people of the elefant) where Heraclius lost the battle.
About the Elefant, bear in mind it is singular, and could also be the symbol of an army or tribe!!!!
Is it possible that "People of the elephant" is the people who were using an elephant as symbol e.g. people of Petra!!!
please see new findings
http//www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/Petra/elephant.html
Regards
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peace
I remember my Mum used to say the Ababeel-birds that fly around the kaaba do twaaf, you see them flying around the kaaba and they never shit on the holy precints i used to wonder how can animals know such stuff!!!
then when i went on Hajj with my mum i saw so many bird dropping in the verandas surrounding the kaaba- everything was self evident its all in the mind.
I was also told the zam zam is holy water that cures many a disease, until i saw a water container in the veranda- the lid had come off-full off green stuff fungi and realised why so many people get the cough and the belly aches.
when will they stop brain washing children into believing nonsensical things.
Thank God for everything he did for me.
peace
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I was also told the zam zam is holy water that cures many a disease, until i saw a water container in the veranda- the lid had come off-full off green stuff fungi and realised why so many people get the cough and the belly aches.
It is blatent lie. Fungi and smell/odor does not develop in Zam Zam water. I have one container of Zam Zam kept by me since 1991, now left about half of the container, it is fresh till today. I kept it for physical verification. First read scientific reports about the contents of Zam Zam, then talk and spread rubbish opinions. You might not know even peculiarity of that well. Water does not come from the sides but gushes from the bed.
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It is blatent lie. Fungi and smell/odor does not develop in Zam Zam water. I have one container of Zam Zam kept by me since 1991, now left about half of the container, it is fresh till today. I kept it for physical verification. First read scientific reports about the contents of Zam Zam, then talk and spread rubbish opinions. You might not know even peculiarity of that well. Water does not come from the sides but gushes from the bed.
Pictures of your container please ! whatever
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It is blatent lie. Fungi and smell/odor does not develop in Zam Zam water. I have one container of Zam Zam kept by me since 1991, now left about half of the container, it is fresh till today. I kept it for physical verification. First read scientific reports about the contents of Zam Zam, then talk and spread rubbish opinions. You might not know even peculiarity of that well. Water does not come from the sides but gushes from the bed.
May be the container hadn't been serviced for a while, God knows.
but here is something that you need to be aware of-
http//www.luton.gov.uk/internet/references/news/news%20archive/2008%20news%20releases/september%202008/05_09_08%20-%20dangerous%20levels%20of%20arsenic%20found%20in%20water%20brand
Hygiene is essential irrespective of what you are having and where.
I personally once went to K2 to get some Glacier water- i still have some after 10 years, it is supposed to be good for you - just check the web wow
peace
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Peace,
I am more traditionalist then and I think this story has more to do with historical events, one of the hypothesis I found is a volcan eruption that killed the army of the elefant which did not occur in Mecca but more in North West Arabia.
and other hypothesis is the Jordan river battle between the arabs and the Byzantins (the people of the elefant) where Heraclius lost the battle.Regards
This has been told in plain and straight words
http//haqeeqat.org.pk/English%20Tafsir%20e%20Haqeeqat/00.Arabic%20Text/017.%20Al%20Israa/17.70.gif
And indeed We have hnoured and dignified the posterity of Adam and We have made them ride in the Earth and the Water Reservoir;Agree with Mazhar. It seem that this very point of human being in an elevated status is also being pointed out in the translation quoted above from servantofthelight site, if it is linguistically correct.
For Herbman, please see that the different translation given above, is by no means denying or commenting on a historical event that may very well have happened, and you may very well be right in the possibility of this as a true event. The question here is however totally different. The issue here is, if you look at the translation given above from that site carefully, it is being stated that what is written in Arabic in the Qur'Aan, based on their linguistic understanding, as discussing a totally differnt topic, where we are lead to believe, that it is discussing about an elephant story. If their linguistic understanding is correct, then it is clear of course, that it is not discussing that historical event in this Surah that a lot of people believe as true, but a totally different topic.
I hope I am not confusing you. The issue here is not the truthfulness of a particular event, but a linguistic challange, that this is in reality talking about yet another principle of humanity as eluded to above and is not linguistically describing the elephant related story. The preface given above just before the translation is eluding to this point also.
May our Creator give us a true understanding in the linguistic terms as well, so we can spent time in understanding the principles of humanity described in this Book, so the humanity can truly benefit.
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May be the container hadn't been serviced for a while, God knows.
but here is something that you need to be aware of-
http//www.luton.gov.uk/internet/references/news/news%20archive/2008%20news%20releases/september%202008/05_09_08%20-%20dangerous%20levels%20of%20arsenic%20found%20in%20water%20brand
Hygiene is essential irrespective of what you are having and where.
I personally once went to K2 to get some Glacier water- i still have some after 10 years, it is supposed to be good for you - just check the web wow
peace
Read once again the link with little bit of open eyes. That is not Zam Zam. Someone is doing fraud in London toearncouple of pounds.
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And you find that funny?
No, did I mention that is was funny ?
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Are you a follower of Dr. Shabbir Ahmed one who is claiming that Karbala never happened ?
I don't know this guy, I said I've study history.
what is the relation between the stroy of Karbala and the the sybject that you have stated before in your precedent post?
P.S his name seems to be from Pakistan.
I asked him two questions but he never answered me
well, I don't know him and I've never read his books, as I see from wikipedia he was 30 when he learnt Arabic and he studied it, so I guess his knowledge will be superficial and he might met a lot of Liars and Mostashriqine who they played with his mind (God knows).
Ok if you claim that all thing i posted is rubbish then give me the name of your sources ie. name of books etc.
I suggest for you to read "lies in History" or " " the book is an arabic, but as I said before I've studied history, so typically I know the real stories.
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I don't know this guy, I said I've study history.
what is the relation between the stroy of Karbala and the the sybject that you have stated before in your precedent post?
P.S his name seems to be from Pakistan.
well, I don't know him and I've never read his books, as I see from wikipedia he was 30 when he learnt Arabic and he studied it, so I guess his knowledge will be superficial and he might met a lot of Liars and Mostashriqine who they played with his mind (God knows).
I suggest for you to read "lies in History" or " " the book is an arabic, but as I said before I've studied history, so typically I know the real stories.
Do you understand the sheer difficulty the study of history brings forth in the attempt to understand what on Earth is going on in the NOW? When you have so many mixed messages from the past, each as unverifiable as the last, it would be somewhat unwise to really go by these words especially when it regards the subject of submission to the divine will.
but as I said before I've studied history, so typically I know the real stories.
How do you know this? The truth is that you don't. You were born within the last 100 years, at most. You popped into Earth out of your mother's womb, knowing absolutely nothing. Your parents then began a process of conditioning (as all parents must do, it is the natural order) on your young and highly malleable consciousness to transform you into the being you believe yourself to be now. Nowhere along these lines have you gone back in time from before your birth, you only read what has been passed on and on and on and on and on and on and on, each time getting distorted slightly. If you pass a signal through a pipe with a lot of nodes in between ends of the pipe and each of those nodes provides a small perturbation to the signal, the resulting signal will be heavily distorted, that is physical fact. This is why I don't really believe in history whatsoever. Why then do I believe in the quran? Purely because I don't care for its historical statements just yet and because where I can ascertain meaning, it is very clear and tautologically truthful unlike that which is present in the majority of texts.
On the original subject, Pickthal translates 1053 as "swarms of flying creatures". Surely we have these very swarms of flying creatures as stated by Mazhar, and they do indeed send down on the ground "stones of baked clay" aka shaped charged. What I don't understand is "companions of the elephant", it is unlikely from my POV to refer to some elephant riding army yet the elephant is found in Africa and India, neither of which have really tried to declare war on others.
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"companions of the elephant", it is unlikely from my POV to refer to some elephant riding army yet the elephant is found in Africa and India, neither of which have really tried to declare war on others.
The coumpund, combination of two nouns, is Possessive Phrase. It does not show mere companionship, but title, their repute, identification. Ashabal Hijre does not mean companions of valley etc but "the residents of the valley"; or "the residents of the Hell-Prison". They may or may not be companions since they will be dwelling in different seven apartmens of Hell Prison. "The people of the Elephant" the first noun is also proper noun though in appearance is common noun, because of possessive phrase, second being the proper noun.
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No, did I mention that is was funny ?
You said "lol"
Lol, this man has been crusified .
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Why did you reply to this, 5 years later?
To answer your question, the chapter refers to the Year of the Elephant there are two interpretations of the birds throwing rocks, one is literal as you seem to have understood it and another is it is a literary metaphor for a disease known as smallpox.
The latter is supposed to be most plausible, but this is not a subject for religion, but history - the event predates Islam and it was supposed to show how God doesn't like war in his Sacred City and how he ended it.