105 — Surah Al-Fil

The Elephant

 

105:1

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

  Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? [The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka‘bah at Makkah].

— Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali & Muhammad Muhsin Khan

105:2

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ

  Did He not make their plot go astray?

— Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali & Muhammad Muhsin Khan

105:3

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

  And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

— Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali & Muhammad Muhsin Khan

105:4

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

  Striking them with stones of Sijjîl (baked clay).

— Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali & Muhammad Muhsin Khan

105:5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

  And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).

— Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali & Muhammad Muhsin Khan