Al-Fil · The Elephant

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ﴿١﴾

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

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ ﴿٢﴾

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿٣﴾

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ ﴿٤﴾

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴿٥﴾

And He made them like eaten straw.

fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin