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Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant (the army of Abrahah, the viceroy of the Negus, king of Abyssînia, at Yeman)?
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Did He not (cause the war to end in confusion and) ruin their plan (to destroy Ka'bah by making it revert on themselves)?
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And He sent against them flocks of birds,
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(Which tore off flesh from their bodies to eat by) striking them against stones of hardened and petrified clay.
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And thus He reduced them to rotten chaff (and in a similar way will they be ruined who would ever make an attack to destroy Ka'bah).