أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?1
Have you not seen ˹O Prophet˺ how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?
Al-Fil · Surah 105 of 114 · Makkan · 5 verses
Layered translations الفيل
The Elephant
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أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?1
Did He not frustrate their scheme?
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
For He sent against them flocks of birds,
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
that pelted them with stones of baked clay,
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
And He made them like eaten straw.1
leaving them like chewed up straw.1