Surah 105 · Meccan · 5 verses · Juz 30

Al-Fil

الفيل

The Elephant

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

  1. أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ۝١

    Alam tara kaifa fa‘ala rabbuka bi'aṣḥābil-fīl(i).

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

  2. أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ۝٢

    Alam yaj‘al kaidahum fī taḍlīl(in).

    Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

  3. وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ۝٣

    Wa arsala ‘alaihim ṭairan abābīl(a).

    And He sent against them birds in flocks,

  4. تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ۝٤

    Tarmīhim biḥijāratim min sijjīl(in).

    Striking them with stones of hard clay,

  5. فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ۝٥

    Fa ja‘alahum ka‘aṣfim ma'kūl(in).

    And He made them like eaten straw.

Arabic text: Uthmani script, Hafs, from Quran.com. Translation: Saheeh International, from Quran.com (footnotes not shown). Transliteration: equran.id. Recitation: Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy, from everyayah.com. About the sources.