بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بأصحاب الفيل
Shakir
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors 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].
Arabic, with marks
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
Arabic
ألم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل
Shakir
Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Did He not make their plot go astray?
Arabic, with marks
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Arabic
وأرسل عليهم طيرا أبابيل
Shakir
And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And He sent against them birds, in flocks,
Arabic, with marks
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Arabic
ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل
Shakir
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Striking them with stones of Sijjil (baked clay).
Arabic, with marks
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Arabic
فجعلهم كعصف مأكول
Shakir
So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).