Troy Troy Troy (, "Troia" or Τροίας, "Troias" and , "Ilion" or , "Ilios"; and ; Hittite: "Wilusha" or "Truwisha"; ) was a city in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, just south of the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the "Iliad", one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the "Iliad"
Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins over the three. Finally, like most Qur'anic parables, it illustrates that man's power is nothing, and that his utmost faith should rest in God and God only. Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins The Qur'an, in its second chapter, Al-Baqara, , mentions a parable, concerning a man who passed by a hamlet in ruins, and asked himself how God will be able to resurrect the dead on the Day of Judgement. This parable has been one of the most popular in tradition and although Muslims do indeed believe this story to have been a real historical event, the identity of