Al Fil

Pickthall

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

Shakir

1 Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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].

Pickthall

2 Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

Shakir

2 Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 Did He not make their plot go astray?

Pickthall

3 And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

Shakir

3 And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

Pickthall

4 Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

Shakir

4 Casting against them stones of baked clay,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

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

Shakir

5 So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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