Animals in the Quran Series: ELEPHANTS

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

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).

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

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