Animals in the Quran Series: ELEPHANTS

obmar · Animals in the Quran Series: ELEPHANTS

The Quran mentions many animals and one of it is the Elephant.

Al-fil | 5 verses | The Elephant | Tafsir سورة الفيل
Sura #105 | Makkah

1 Have you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) not seen how your Lord dealt with the Owners of the Elephant? (The elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Kabah at Makkah).
2 Did He not make their plot go astray?
3 And sent against them birds, in flocks,
4 Striking them with stones of Sijjeel.
5 And made them like an empty field of stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).

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Let's look into pictures of Elephants.

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Elephants (Elephantidae) are a family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia.

There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant,
the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant),
and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant).

Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago, the Mammoths being the most well-known of these.

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Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today

The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal.
At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms (265 lb).
An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer.

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Elephants are symbols of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory
and high intelligence, where they are thought to be on par with cetaceans[5] and hominids[6].

Aristotle once said the elephant was "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind."

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Elephants are increasingly threatened by human intrusion and poaching. Once numbering in the millions, the African elephant population has dwindled to between 470,000 and 690,000 individuals.[7]

The elephant is now a protected species worldwide, with restrictions in place on capture, domestic use, and trade in products such as ivory. Elephants generally have no natural predators, although lions may take calves and occasionally adults.

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They kill for the Ivory

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One elephant dead-murdered for every two husks.
Leaving dozens, hundreds of baby elphants to be orphaned,
or killed for sport/entertainment

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Want to listen how Elephant as recited by the Quran?

http://www.searchtruth.com/chapte....php?chapter=105&translator=5

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Old Heavy Black-Painted Metal Elephant Figurine/Statue

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An elephant Ivory carved into an elephant

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War elephants

A war elephant is an elephant trained and guided by humans for combat. The beasts were significant, although not widespread, weapons in ancient military history. Their main use was in charges, to trample the enemy and/or break their ranks. They were probably first employed in India, where the elephant corps served as one of the four classical wings of the Indian Army.

In the Hellenistic period of Greece, they were also used by the Diadochi to protect against cavalry attack. Their most famous use in the West was by the warlord Pyrrhus and in great numbers by the armies of Carthage. In the Mediterranean, improved tactics reduced the value of the elephant in battle while their availability also decreased. In India it was the cannon that finally brought the use of the combat elephant to an end, limiting them thereafter to engineering and labour roles.

It is commonly thought that all war elephants were male because of males' greater aggression, but this was not always true.

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* 'elephants never forget'
refers literally to elephants
supposedly having an excellent memory.

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* white elephant
refers to an expensive burden,
particularly to a situation
in which much has been invested
with false expectations.

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Religion and philosophy

* The scattered skulls of prehistoric pygmy elephants on Crete, featuring a single large nasal cavity at the front, may have formed the basis of belief in existence of cyclops, the one-eyed giants featured in Homer's Odyssey.
* A white elephant is considered holy in Thailand.
* Ganesh, the Hindu god of wisdom, has an elephant's head.
* Elephants are used in festivals in Sri Lanka, such as the Esala Perahera.
* Temple elephant
* Guruvayur Keshavan famous temple elephant in Kerala, India
* The story of the Blind Men and an Elephant was written to show how reality may be viewed by different perspectives. Its source is unknown, but it appears to have originated in India. It has been attributed to Buddhists, Hindus, Jainists, and Sufis, and was also used by Discordians.
* In Judeo-Christian accounts, including Midrash on the sixth chapter of the apocryphal book of 1 Maccabees, the youngest of the Hasmonean brothers, Eleazar the Maccabee stuck a spear under the foot of an elephant carrying an important Greek-Assyrian general, killing the elephant, the general, and Eleazar.