THE FINAL INCREDIBLY TALL TALE
Birds striking with stones of baked clay Sura 105 In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 1. Seest thou not How thy Lord dealt With the Companions Of the Elephant? 2. Did He not make Their treacherous plan Go astray? 3. And He sent against them Flights of Birds, 4. Striking them with stones Of baked clay. 5. Then did He make them Like an empty field Of stalks and straw, (Of which the corn) Has been eaten up. https://archive.sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq105.htm (Yusuf Ali) Sura 105 In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful HAST thou not seen 1 how thy Lord dealt with the army of the ELEPHANT? Did he not cause their stratagem to miscarry? And he sent against them birds in flocks (ababils), Claystones did they hurl down upon them, And he made them like stubble eaten down! #1 This Sura is probably Muhammad's appeal to the Meccans, intended at the same time for his own encouragement, on the ground of their deliverance from the army of Abraha, the Christian Ki...