Quran

Surah Al-Fil (The Elephant)

الفِيلِ

Surah 105 of 114, revealed in Makkah, 5 ayat.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

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

  1. 1Al-Fil 105:1

    أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

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

    Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?

  2. 2Al-Fil 105:2

    أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ

    Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

    Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

  3. 3Al-Fil 105:3

    وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

    And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

    And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

  4. 4Al-Fil 105:4

    تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ

    Striking them with stones of baked clay.

    Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

  5. 5Al-Fil 105:5

    فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

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

    And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

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Arabic text from the Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani). Translations by Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Marmaduke Pickthall, both in the public domain.