Surah 105

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الفيل

Al-Fil | The Elephant | 5 verses

Sahih International The Clear Quran

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

Sahih International

Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?¹

The Clear Quran

Have you not seen ˹O Prophet˺ how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ

Sahih International

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?¹

The Clear Quran

Did He not frustrate their scheme?

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

Sahih International

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

The Clear Quran

For He sent against them flocks of birds,

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

Sahih International

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

The Clear Quran

that pelted them with stones of baked clay,

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

Sahih International

And He made them like eaten straw.¹

The Clear Quran

leaving them like chewed up straw.¹

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