'Am Al Feel
The majority of the Arabs were idol worshippers, however, some Christian and Jewish minorities existed in Arabia.
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Yemen was under the rule of Habashah which was a Christian dominated kingdom. Abrahah, the ruler of Yemen built a huge church and decorated it beautifully. His aim was to convert the Arabs to Christianity and to attract them to perform pilgrimage to his church. Nevertheless, Arabs were not interested in his church and much more interested in the Ka'bah. Therefore, he decided to destroy the Ka'bah.
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Abrahah prepared a huge army to attack the Ka'bah. He also took along with him a number of war trained elephants. When the army of Abrahah arrived at Mecca, the people of Mecca were very scared because they had never seen elephants before.
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