Al Fil

Transliteration

1 Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biashabi alfeeli

Saheeh International

1 Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

1 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].

Transliteration

2 Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin

Saheeh International

2 Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 Did He not make their plot go astray?

Transliteration

3 Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela

Saheeh International

3 And He sent against them birds in flocks,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

Transliteration

4 Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin

Saheeh International

4 Striking them with stones of hard clay,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 Striking them with stones of Sijjil (baked clay).

Transliteration

5 FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin

Saheeh International

5 And He made them like eaten straw.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).