Al Fil

Shakir

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

Transliteration

1 Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biashabi alfeeli

Yusuf Ali

1 Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?

Shakir

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

Transliteration

2 Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin

Yusuf Ali

2 Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

Shakir

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

Transliteration

3 Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela

Yusuf Ali

3 And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

Shakir

4 Casting against them stones of baked clay,

Transliteration

4 Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin

Yusuf Ali

4 Striking them with stones of baked clay.

Shakir

5 So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

Transliteration

5 FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin

Yusuf Ali

5 Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.