• Al-Fīl (Arabic: الفيل, "The Elephant") is the 105th chapter (surah) of the Quran. It is a Meccan sura consisting of 5 verses. The surah is written in the...
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    The ʿām al-fīl (Arabic: عام الفيل, Year of the Elephant) is the name in Islamic history for the year approximately equating to 570–571 CE. According to...
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    Jabal Al-Fil (Elephant Mountain) is a rock formation in Saudi Arabia, 11 km northeast of Al-'Ula. It rises to a height of 35.6 metres (117 ft). Elephant...
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  • Look up fil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. FIL or Fil may refer to: Father-in-law Fil Barlow (born 1963), Australian cartoonist Fil Bo Riva (born...
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    Sin el-Fil (Arabic: سنّ الفيل / ALA-LC: Sinn al-Fīl) is a suburb east of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The name...
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  • of two suras containing 4 ayat; the other is Al-Ikhlas. It forms a pair with the preceding sura, al-Fil, reminding the Quraysh of the favors that Allah...
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    Mecca (redirect from Makkah Al-Mukkaramah)
    story in Quran is rather short. According to the 105th Surah of the Quran, Al-Fil, the next day, a dark cloud of small birds sent by Allah appeared. The birds...
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  • Ras al-Fil (Arabic: lit. 'head of the elephant') was a former governorate of the Christian Ethiopian state, located to the west of the river Atbara and...
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  • romanized: abābīl) refers to the miraculous birds in Islamic belief mentioned in Surah Al-Fil of the holy Islamic bookQuran that protected the Kaaba in Mecca from the...
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  • be known as 'Ām al-Fīl (the Year of the Elephant), beginning a trend for reckoning the years in Arabia which was used until 'Umar ibn Al-Khaṭṭāb replaced...
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