Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
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,
Arabic, with marks
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
Saheeh International
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Did He not make their plot go astray?
Shakir
And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
Arabic, with marks
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Saheeh International
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And He sent against them birds, in flocks,
Shakir
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
Arabic, with marks
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Saheeh International
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Striking them with stones of Sijjil (baked clay).
Shakir
So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
Arabic, with marks
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Saheeh International
And He made them like eaten straw.
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).