SEERAT UN NABI (part4)
Seerat-un-Nabi ﷺ Episode No. 4 --- Seerat-un-Nabi ﷺ > Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant? Did He not make their plot go astray? Allah sent upon them flocks of birds (Ababeel) which threw pebbles at them. Thus Allah made them like eaten straw. Surah Al-Feel (1-5) The incident of Ashab-ul-Feel happened in 571 AD - the year of the blessed birth of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. The Abyssinian Christian ruler of Yemen, Abraha bin Ashram, marched towards Makkah with 60,000 soldiers and 13 elephants to demolish the Kaaba. *Who was Abraha?* He was a commander sent by the King of Abyssinia to avenge the oppression of Christians by the Jewish ruler Yusuf Zu Nuwas. He later became the independent King of Yemen. His plan was: 1. To spread Christianity in Arabia 2. To take control of Arab trade For this, he built a grand church in Sana'a called *"Al-Qullais" (Ecclesia)* and announced: _"I will not stop until I divert the Hajj of Arabs from Kaaba to E...