Al Fil

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].

Yusuf Ali

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 Did He not make their plot go astray?

Yusuf Ali

2 Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

Yusuf Ali

3 And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

4 Striking them with stones of baked clay.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

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