Qur'an and Tafsir
Al-Fil and Quraysh
The elephant, and the tribe that lived off it
An elephant knelt outside Makkah. The town lived off that morning for years.
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- 19 cards, about 8 min
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Two short surahs that read as one story. Al-Fil, the Elephant, recalls the army that marched on Makkah to pull down the Ka'bah, traditionally in the year the Prophet ﷺ was born. Quraysh then turns to his own tribe, who grew safe and prosperous on what happened that day, and asks them for one thing.
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