Al Fil

Transliteration

1 Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biashabi alfeeli

Shakir

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

Pickthall

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant ?

Transliteration

2 Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin

Shakir

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

Pickthall

2 Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

Transliteration

3 Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela

Shakir

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

Pickthall

3 And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

Transliteration

4 Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin

Shakir

4 Casting against them stones of baked clay,

Pickthall

4 Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

Transliteration

5 FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin

Shakir

5 So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

Pickthall

5 And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle) ?