قَالَ فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ ذُبَاباً أَخْضَرَ لَهُ أَرْبَعَةُ...

قَالَ فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ ذُبَاباً أَخْضَرَ لَهُ أَرْبَعَةُ أَجْنِحَةٍ فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْمِسْكِ وَ الْعَنْبَرِ شَيْئاً إِلَّا أَكَلَهُ He -asws said: ‘So Allah -azwj Sent a green fly which had four wings, and there did not remain anything from that musk and the amber except that it (the fly) consumed it’’.

[31] The various idols of the various tribes [ الفضل الطبرسي ] عن الثمالي: إن أوثان قوم نوح صارت إلى العرب فكانت ود بدومة الجندل، وسواع برهاط لهذيل، وكان يغوث لبني غطيف من مراد، وكان يعوق لهمدان، وكان نسر لآل ذي الكلاع من حمير، وكان اللات لثقيف، وأما العزى فلسليم وغطفان وجشم ونضر وسعد بن بكر، وأما مناة فكانت لقديد، وأما أساف ونائلة وهبل فلأهل مكة Al Fazal Al Tabarsy, from Al-Sumaly, ‘The idols of the people of Nuh -as came to (be with) the Arabs.

So (the idol) Wadda was with (King) Dowmat of Al-Jandal; and (the idol) Suwa’a was with Rahaat of Hazeel; and (the idol) Yagous was with the clan of Ghateyf from Muraad; and (the idol) Yaowq was at Hamdaan; and (the idol) Nasrs was for the progeny of Zilkala’a from Humeyr; and (the idol) Al-Laat was for (the clan of) Saqeef ; and as for (the idol) Al-Uzza, so it was for the clans of Saleym, and Ghatfan, and Jashm, and Mazar, and Sa’ad Bin Bakr; and as for (the idol) Manaat, so it was for (the clan of) Qadeed; and as for (the idol) Asaaf and (the idol) Na’ila, and (the idol) Hobal, so these were for the people of Makkah.

وكان أساف حيال الحجر الأسود وكانت نائلة حيال الركن اليماني وكان هبل في جوف الكعبة ثمانية عشر ذراعا And (the idol) Asaaf was situated near the Black Stone, and (the idol) Na’ila was situated next to the Yemeni corner, and (the idol) Hobal was in the middle of Kabah, being of eighteen cubits’.

[32] [ الثعلبي ] قال الثمالي: صارت أوثان قوم نوح إلى العرب فكان ود لكلب بدومة الجندل، وكان سواع برهاط لهذيل، وكان يغوث لبني غطيف من مراد بالجوف، وكان يعوق لهمدان، وكان نسر لآل ذي الكلاع من حمير Al Sa’alby – Al Sumaly said, ‘The idols of the people of Nuh -as came to be with the Arabs.

So (the idol) Wadda was a dog (shaped) with Dowmat Al-Jandal; and (the idol) Suwa’a was at Rahaat for Hazeyl, and (the idol) Yagous was for the Clan of Ghateyf from Muraad at Al-Jouf, and (the idol) Yaouq was for Hamdaan, and (the idol) Nasra for the progeny of Zilkala’a from Humeyr’. [33] VERSES 26 & 27 وَقَالَ نُوحٌ رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ دَيَّارًا {26} And Nuh said: ‘My Lord!

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