Al Fil
Chapter 105, 5 verses
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Transliteration
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Pickthall
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Shakir
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Transliteration
Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biashabi alfeeli
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?
Word by word
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Transliteration
Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin
Pickthall
Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
Shakir
Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
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أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
Transliteration
Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela
Pickthall
And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
Shakir
And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
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وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Transliteration
Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin
Pickthall
Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
Shakir
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
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تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Transliteration
FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin
Pickthall
And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle) ?
Shakir
So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
Word by word
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ