Al Fil
Chapter 105, 5 verses
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Pickthall
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Shakir
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Yusuf Ali
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Word by word
Pickthall
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant ?
Shakir
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
Yusuf Ali
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
Word by word
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Pickthall
Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
Shakir
Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
Yusuf Ali
Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
Word by word
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
Pickthall
And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
Shakir
And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
Yusuf Ali
And He sent against them Flights of Birds,
Word by word
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Pickthall
Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
Shakir
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
Yusuf Ali
Striking them with stones of baked clay.
Word by word
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Pickthall
And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle) ?
Shakir
So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
Yusuf Ali
Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.
Word by word
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ