Al-Fil
Translation by
Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
QURAAN
Al-Fil
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ ﴿1﴾
Have you not seen ˹O Prophet˺ how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ ﴿2﴾
Did He not frustrate their scheme?
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿3﴾
For He sent against them flocks of birds,
تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ ﴿4﴾
that pelted them with stones of baked clay,
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ ﴿5﴾
leaving them like chewed up straw.1