Arrogant US Ought to Remember the Tabas Miracle
By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz
"In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate
"What! Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the hordes of the Elephant? Did he not cause their stratagems to go awry? And send against them flocks of birds; pelting them with stones of shale. Thus making them like chewed-up straw?” (Holy Qur’an Surah 105)
The Holy Qur’an is not a book of history, neither does it record all the miracles that God made manifest for the guidance of the human race, nor is there any mention in its pages of the terrible fates suffered by various nations for their sins and violation of Divine Commandments.
In His Last and Final Scripture to all mankind, the Almighty Creator only chose to highlight certain events that would strengthen the faith of the believers and serve as warning to the arrogant of what would befall them if they crossed the redlines.
The above mentioned passage, famous as "Surah al-Feel”, thus remains an eternal reminder of the Infinite Power of God that in a moment could reduce the ‘self-smart mighty’ and their ‘beautiful weapons’ to nothingness, similar to the fate that befell the elephantine hordes of Abraha, the arrogant Abyssinian governor of Yemen, who in the year 570 AD, led a mighty force of war elephants and well-equipped warriors towards Mecca to destroy the holy Ka’ba, the supreme edifice of monotheism built by Adam, the Father of the human race at the dawn of creation, and rebuilt by Prophet Abraham for the worship of the One and Only Lord.
Abraha, proud of his power, wealth and weapons, brushed aside advice against violating the sanctity of the symbolic House of the Unseen but Omnipresent Creator, but the moment he reached the precincts of Mecca and was poised for the attack, a swarm of birds appeared in the sky with pebbles in their beaks and claws, which they miraculously dropped on the invaders, reducing most of the warriors and their mounts of horses, camels and elephants to something like chewed-up straw, while the rest fled helter-skelter.
Those who are acquainted with the Holy Qur’an, ponder on its words of wisdom, or, in case of belonging to other creeds, at least have the sense to keep themselves away from self-destruction, refrained from the blunders of Abraha, in respect to the redlines set by God.
The reason we remind readers of this miracle of the distant past is to draw their attention towards a similar miracle of our own modern times, exactly 38 years ago, when aircraft, tanks and missiles (that have replaced war elephants, steeds, swords, and arrows), were turned into useless garbage.
Power, wealth and weapons, however, rob the arrogant of their senses, and in 1980, US President Jimmy Carter and his team of short-sighted advisors, oblivious of "Surah al-Feel” and the fate suffered by Abraha, or perhaps dismissing it as a myth of the ancients, made the fatal mistake of confronting those whom God Almighty had empowered to throw off the yoke of domestic tyranny and foreign hegemony.
They planned and plotted against the Islamic Republic of Iran, little realizing that God is the Best of Planners.
After an intensive six-month training for the Delta Force in the US, Egypt and Oman (in conditions similar to Iran’s deserts), the US launched Operation Eagle Claw in the dead of the night of April 25 by selecting remote Tabas as the staging point for a surprise assault on Tehran, in collaboration with turncoats among the Iranians, to kill senior revolutionary leaders, overthrow the Islamic Republic, and free the 52 American spies detained by students following the path of Imam Khomeini (RA).
The rest is history. God Almighty decided to show a glimpse of His signs when He decreed particles of sand to rise as high as 10,000 feet in the air in the form of a dense white cloud, swirling, whirling, and twirling around an airborne US invasion force. In a few moments, many US soldiers were reduced to charred bodies and aircraft to burnt debris.
The next morning, as an unaware Iranian nation woke up, it was a pleasant surprise to learn of the miracle in Tabas that forced America’s elite force to flee Iran with the remnants of their copters and planes, leaving behind dead soldiers, and wreckage of seven helicopters and a C-130 Hercules aircraft, that had crashed into each other, thanks to the sandstorm.
The nose of the arrogantly ignorant US was again rubbed in the dust.
Today, the 25th of April, the 38th anniversary of that memorable modern-day miracle, ought to serve as a lesson to all would-be aggressors of the fate that awaits those who try to mess up with a divine system of government.
In view of the Abraha-like arrogance of Donald Trump, Iran should spare no efforts in strengthening its defences, including the range and precision of its missiles, but with complete trust in God Almighty that He will never let down a grateful Shari’ah-abiding nation.
Insha Allah (God Willing), any wrong move by Washington will bring swift wrath from God, more destructive than what had befell the US at Tabas in 1980.
"In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate
"What! Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the hordes of the Elephant? Did he not cause their stratagems to go awry? And send against them flocks of birds; pelting them with stones of shale. Thus making them like chewed-up straw?” (Holy Qur’an Surah 105)
The Holy Qur’an is not a book of history, neither does it record all the miracles that God made manifest for the guidance of the human race, nor is there any mention in its pages of the terrible fates suffered by various nations for their sins and violation of Divine Commandments.
In His Last and Final Scripture to all mankind, the Almighty Creator only chose to highlight certain events that would strengthen the faith of the believers and serve as warning to the arrogant of what would befall them if they crossed the redlines.
The above mentioned passage, famous as "Surah al-Feel”, thus remains an eternal reminder of the Infinite Power of God that in a moment could reduce the ‘self-smart mighty’ and their ‘beautiful weapons’ to nothingness, similar to the fate that befell the elephantine hordes of Abraha, the arrogant Abyssinian governor of Yemen, who in the year 570 AD, led a mighty force of war elephants and well-equipped warriors towards Mecca to destroy the holy Ka’ba, the supreme edifice of monotheism built by Adam, the Father of the human race at the dawn of creation, and rebuilt by Prophet Abraham for the worship of the One and Only Lord.
Abraha, proud of his power, wealth and weapons, brushed aside advice against violating the sanctity of the symbolic House of the Unseen but Omnipresent Creator, but the moment he reached the precincts of Mecca and was poised for the attack, a swarm of birds appeared in the sky with pebbles in their beaks and claws, which they miraculously dropped on the invaders, reducing most of the warriors and their mounts of horses, camels and elephants to something like chewed-up straw, while the rest fled helter-skelter.
Those who are acquainted with the Holy Qur’an, ponder on its words of wisdom, or, in case of belonging to other creeds, at least have the sense to keep themselves away from self-destruction, refrained from the blunders of Abraha, in respect to the redlines set by God.
The reason we remind readers of this miracle of the distant past is to draw their attention towards a similar miracle of our own modern times, exactly 38 years ago, when aircraft, tanks and missiles (that have replaced war elephants, steeds, swords, and arrows), were turned into useless garbage.
Power, wealth and weapons, however, rob the arrogant of their senses, and in 1980, US President Jimmy Carter and his team of short-sighted advisors, oblivious of "Surah al-Feel” and the fate suffered by Abraha, or perhaps dismissing it as a myth of the ancients, made the fatal mistake of confronting those whom God Almighty had empowered to throw off the yoke of domestic tyranny and foreign hegemony.
They planned and plotted against the Islamic Republic of Iran, little realizing that God is the Best of Planners.
After an intensive six-month training for the Delta Force in the US, Egypt and Oman (in conditions similar to Iran’s deserts), the US launched Operation Eagle Claw in the dead of the night of April 25 by selecting remote Tabas as the staging point for a surprise assault on Tehran, in collaboration with turncoats among the Iranians, to kill senior revolutionary leaders, overthrow the Islamic Republic, and free the 52 American spies detained by students following the path of Imam Khomeini (RA).
The rest is history. God Almighty decided to show a glimpse of His signs when He decreed particles of sand to rise as high as 10,000 feet in the air in the form of a dense white cloud, swirling, whirling, and twirling around an airborne US invasion force. In a few moments, many US soldiers were reduced to charred bodies and aircraft to burnt debris.
The next morning, as an unaware Iranian nation woke up, it was a pleasant surprise to learn of the miracle in Tabas that forced America’s elite force to flee Iran with the remnants of their copters and planes, leaving behind dead soldiers, and wreckage of seven helicopters and a C-130 Hercules aircraft, that had crashed into each other, thanks to the sandstorm.
The nose of the arrogantly ignorant US was again rubbed in the dust.
Today, the 25th of April, the 38th anniversary of that memorable modern-day miracle, ought to serve as a lesson to all would-be aggressors of the fate that awaits those who try to mess up with a divine system of government.
In view of the Abraha-like arrogance of Donald Trump, Iran should spare no efforts in strengthening its defences, including the range and precision of its missiles, but with complete trust in God Almighty that He will never let down a grateful Shari’ah-abiding nation.
Insha Allah (God Willing), any wrong move by Washington will bring swift wrath from God, more destructive than what had befell the US at Tabas in 1980.