AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
105.001 Y: Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
P: Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?
S: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
105.002 Y: Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
P: Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
S: Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
105.003 Y: And He sent against them Flights of Birds,
P: And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
S: And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
105.004 Y: Striking them with stones of baked clay.
P: Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
S: Casting against them stones of baked clay,
105.005 Y: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.
P: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?
S: So He rendered them like straw eaten up?