105
Al-Fil
Meccan5 verses
1
أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلۡفِيلِ
Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? [The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka‘bah at Makkah].
2
أَلَمۡ يَجۡعَلۡ كَيۡدَهُمۡ فِي تَضۡلِيلٖ
Did He not make their plot go astray?
3
وَأَرۡسَلَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ طَيۡرًا أَبَابِيلَ
And He sent against them birds, in flocks,
4
تَرۡمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٖ مِّن سِجِّيلٖ
Striking them with stones of Sijjîl (baked clay).
5
فَجَعَلَهُمۡ كَعَصۡفٖ مَّأۡكُولِۭ
And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).