الـفيل

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant ?

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 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].

2 Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

2 Did He not make their plot go astray?

3 And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

3 And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

4 Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

4 Striking them with stones of Sijjil (baked clay).

5 And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle) ?

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