(While) you were pelting them with stones of porphyritic lava,
Which hit them with stones of baked clay,
hurling against them stones of baked clay
which smote them with stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained,
They hurled upon them stones of baked clay;
Striking them with stones of Sijjil.
Throwing at them rocks of baked clay.
which smote them with stones of baked clay,
Striking them with stones of Sijjil.
Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
pelting them with stones of shale,
pelting them with stones of baked clay,
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
which showered them with small pebbles of clay
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
Tarmeehim bi<u>h</u>ij<u>a</u>ratin min sijjeel<b>in</b>
which pelted them with clay stones?
Striking them with stones of baked clay.
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
They pelted them with stones of clay.
They pelted them with stones of clay.
<p>Verse [ 105:4] بِحِجَارَ‌ةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ (...stones of baked clay.) The word sijjil is a compound Persian word, Arabiciszed, made up of two Persian words: sang [ stone ] and gil [ clay ]. They refer to ordinary or common clay rolled into little balls and then baked to harden. These pebbles are not heavy or hard like rocks chipped off mountains. They in themselves did not have any devastating power, but it was Allah who created in these stones the high capability of explosion and blowing-up even more than the bullets of a revolver.</p>
Verse [ 105:4] بِحِجَارَ‌ةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ (...stones of baked clay.) The word sijjil is a compound Persian word, Arabiciszed, made up of two Persian words: sang [ stone ] and gil [ clay ]. They refer to ordinary or common clay rolled into little balls and then baked to harden. These pebbles are not heavy or hard like rocks chipped off mountains. They in themselves did not have any devastating power, but it was Allah who created in these stones the high capability of explosion and blowing-up even more than the bullets of a revolver.