Quran · 105/114

Surah Al-Fil

الفيل

5 ayat · Meccan · The Elephant

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

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

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ

Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

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

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

Casting against them stones of baked clay,

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

About this text

Arabic: the Uthmani text of the Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), unaltered. The Bismillah, which the source repeats at the start of each surah, is shown once above it.
English translation: M. H. Shakir, as published by the Tanzil Project.
The ayah numbering is the common Hafs numbering (6,236 ayat), in which the Bismillah is the first ayah of al-Fatiha. Above every other surah except al-Tawba the Bismillah is shown without a number.
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