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].
Shakir
Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
Pickthall
Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
Arabic, with marks
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Did He not make their plot go astray?
Shakir
And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
Pickthall
And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
Arabic, with marks
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And He sent against them birds, in flocks,
Shakir
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
Pickthall
Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
Arabic, with marks
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Striking them with stones of Sijjil (baked clay).
Shakir
So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
Pickthall
And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle) ?
Arabic, with marks
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).