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- 10/10/2010
تفسير .... تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
(105:4) which smote them with stones of baked clay, *6
*6) Litrerally, bi hijarat-im-min sijjil means "stones of sijjil type."
Ibn `Abbas says that sijjil is the Arabic version of the Persian
sang and gil, and it implies the stones made from clay and become hard
when baked. The Qur'an also confirms the same. In Surah Hud :82 and
Al-Hijr: 74, it has been said that stones of baked clay (sijjin were
rained on the people of Lot, and about the same stones in Adh-Dhariyat:
33, it has been said that they were the stones made from clay
(hijarat-im min tin).
Maulana Hamid-ad-Din Farahi, who in the
present age has done valuable work on the research and determination of
the meaning and content of the Qur'an regards the people of Makkah and
other Arabians as the subject of tarmihim in this .verse, who are the
addressees of alam tara. About the birds he says that they were not
casting stones but had come to eat the dead bodies of the people of
theelephant. A resume of the arguments he has given for this
interpretation is that it is not credible that `Abdul Muttalib should
have gone before ,Abrahah and demanded his camels instead of pleading
for the Ka`bah, and this also is not credible that the people of Quraish
and the other Arabs who had come for Hajj, did not resist the invaders
and leaving the Ka`bah at their mercy had gone off to the mountains.
Therefore, what actually happened was that the Arabs pelted the army of
Abrahah with stones, and Allah by sending a stormy wind charged with
stones, destroyed it completely; thee the birds were sent to eat the
dead bodies of the soldiers. But, as we have already explained in the
Introduction, the tradition does not only say that `Abdul Muttalib had
gone to demand his camels but it says that he did not demand the camels
at all but tried to dissuade Abrahah from attacking the Ka`bah. We have
already explained that according to all reliable traditions, Abrahah's
army had come in Muharram when the pilgrims had gone back and also it
was beyond the power of Quraish and other Arab tribes living in the
surrounding areas to resist and fight an army 60,000 strong. They had
hardly been able to muster a force ten to twelve thousand strong on the
occasion of the Battle of the Trench (Ahzab) with t he help of the Arab
pagans and Jewish tribes then how could they have mustered courage to
encounter an army, 60,000 strong? However. even if all these arguments
are rejected and the sequence of the verses of Surah Al-Fil only is kept
in view, this interpretation is seen to go against it. If it were so
that the stones were cast by the Arabs and the people of the elephant
were rendered as chaff, and then the birds came to eat their dead
bodies, the order would be this: "You were pelting them with stones of
baked clay, then Allah rendered them as chaff eaten up, and then Allah
sent upon them swarms of birds. " but here we see that first Allah has
made mention of sending swarms of birds; this is immediately followed by
tarmihim bi-hijarat-im min-sijjil (which were pelting them with stones
of baked clay); and then at the end it is said that Allah made them as
straw eaten up
(105:4) which smote them with stones of baked clay, *6
*6) Litrerally, bi hijarat-im-min sijjil means "stones of sijjil type."
Ibn `Abbas says that sijjil is the Arabic version of the Persian
sang and gil, and it implies the stones made from clay and become hard
when baked. The Qur'an also confirms the same. In Surah Hud :82 and
Al-Hijr: 74, it has been said that stones of baked clay (sijjin were
rained on the people of Lot, and about the same stones in Adh-Dhariyat:
33, it has been said that they were the stones made from clay
(hijarat-im min tin).
Maulana Hamid-ad-Din Farahi, who in the
present age has done valuable work on the research and determination of
the meaning and content of the Qur'an regards the people of Makkah and
other Arabians as the subject of tarmihim in this .verse, who are the
addressees of alam tara. About the birds he says that they were not
casting stones but had come to eat the dead bodies of the people of
theelephant. A resume of the arguments he has given for this
interpretation is that it is not credible that `Abdul Muttalib should
have gone before ,Abrahah and demanded his camels instead of pleading
for the Ka`bah, and this also is not credible that the people of Quraish
and the other Arabs who had come for Hajj, did not resist the invaders
and leaving the Ka`bah at their mercy had gone off to the mountains.
Therefore, what actually happened was that the Arabs pelted the army of
Abrahah with stones, and Allah by sending a stormy wind charged with
stones, destroyed it completely; thee the birds were sent to eat the
dead bodies of the soldiers. But, as we have already explained in the
Introduction, the tradition does not only say that `Abdul Muttalib had
gone to demand his camels but it says that he did not demand the camels
at all but tried to dissuade Abrahah from attacking the Ka`bah. We have
already explained that according to all reliable traditions, Abrahah's
army had come in Muharram when the pilgrims had gone back and also it
was beyond the power of Quraish and other Arab tribes living in the
surrounding areas to resist and fight an army 60,000 strong. They had
hardly been able to muster a force ten to twelve thousand strong on the
occasion of the Battle of the Trench (Ahzab) with t he help of the Arab
pagans and Jewish tribes then how could they have mustered courage to
encounter an army, 60,000 strong? However. even if all these arguments
are rejected and the sequence of the verses of Surah Al-Fil only is kept
in view, this interpretation is seen to go against it. If it were so
that the stones were cast by the Arabs and the people of the elephant
were rendered as chaff, and then the birds came to eat their dead
bodies, the order would be this: "You were pelting them with stones of
baked clay, then Allah rendered them as chaff eaten up, and then Allah
sent upon them swarms of birds. " but here we see that first Allah has
made mention of sending swarms of birds; this is immediately followed by
tarmihim bi-hijarat-im min-sijjil (which were pelting them with stones
of baked clay); and then at the end it is said that Allah made them as
straw eaten up
