Al-Fil

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

105:1

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli

Have you not seen ˹O Prophet˺ how your Lord dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

105:2

alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

Did He not frustrate their scheme?

105:3

wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla

For He sent against them flocks of birds,

105:4

tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

that pelted them with stones of baked clay,

105:5

fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin

leaving them like chewed up straw.