Al Fil

Saheeh International

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

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?

Saheeh International

2 Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

Transliteration

2 Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin

Shakir

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

Saheeh International

3 And He sent against them birds in flocks,

Transliteration

3 Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela

Shakir

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

Saheeh International

4 Striking them with stones of hard clay,

Transliteration

4 Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin

Shakir

4 Casting against them stones of baked clay,

Saheeh International

5 And He made them like eaten straw.

Transliteration

5 FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin

Shakir

5 So He rendered them like straw eaten up?