﴿ فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴾

“and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubble”

thus making them like devoured blades? like the leaves of crops which have been consumed trampled and destroyed by animals. God destroyed each one of them with his own stone inscribed with his name larger than a lentil in size but smaller than a chick-pea able to pierce through an egg a man or an elephant and go through the ground. This took place in the year of the Prophet’s birth s.