Chapter 105 - Al-Feel
105:1-5(5) AND NOW A RUNNING TRANSLATION:- 105:1-5 105:1-5(5) “Do you not witness how your Lord dealt with those ignoble ones possessed of pomp and arrogance? Does He not make all their planning/tricks go waste? It is because He sent against them groups of eagle-eyed men to disperse them, who keep striking/showering them with intellectual arguments from a written Scroll. Thus, with this kind of advances, He caused to turn them into a humble thing like eaten straw”.
105:1(5) “Alam tara kayifa fa’ala Rabbu-ka bi-Ashaab il Feel”(1) 105.1(5) “Do you not witness how your Lord dealt with those ignoble ones possessed of pomp and arrogance (بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ )?”
Fa-Ya-Lam = to be weak-minded, to rebuke, lack of wisdom, give bad counsel, to magnify & aggrandize oneself. Weak and erroneous judgement or opinion, erring in judgement/insight, to magnify oneself and become like an elephant, showed a morose aspect, elephant, (it) increased, to become fat/big like an elephant, Heavy (or dull) and low, ignoble or mean, keeper/master of the elephant.
105:2(5) “a-lam yaj’al kayida-hum fi tadhleel” (2) 105:2(5) “Does He not make all their planning/tricks go lost/waste?”
105:3(5) “wa arsala ‘alayi-him tayiran ababeel” (3) 105:3(5) “Because He has sent against them groups (ابَابِيل) of eagle-eyed men (طَيْرًا ) to knock them out,”
Tay-Ya-Ra = flew, hasten to it, outstripped, become foremost, fled, love, become attached, famous, conceive, scatter/disperse, fortune; rush, shoot, knock out, to blow, to make disappear, dispel; predatory birds; birds of prey Ababil: a flock, a bundle, numerous, herd of camels, etc.
105:4(5) “tarmee-him bi-hijaaratim min sijjeel”(4) 105:4 “Who keep striking/showering them with intellectual arguments (حِجَارَةٍ) from a written Scroll (سِجِّيلٍ ) ”. Hijaaratin; Hijr: intellect (Steingass, page 264); Understanding, intelligence, intellect, mind, or reason (Lane’s page 520); Controlling power, restrictive power (89/5) لذی حجر , for a rational person, person of discernment, reasonable person, a person with restraint (Brill, page 191); One gifted with intelligence (89/5)- (Dict. And Glos of Quran by Penrice, page 32); Understanding, intelligence, reason (89/5) – (M.G.Farid, page 166);
105:5(5) “fa-ja’ala-hum ka-‘asfim maakool” (5) 105:5 “Thus, with this kind of confrontations, He caused to turn them into a humble thing like eaten straw”.
Siin-Jiim-Lam = to pour out, spill (liquid), write a paper or a scroll, decide judicially. sijil - written scroll, writing-roll, deed, writ, judicial record, scribe. sijjil - hardened and petrified clay, stones of clay which had been written or decreed for them that they should be punished therewith, scroll of writing, scribe.