Surah Al-Fîl

Translation: Abdul Mannan Omar. Open a verse to compare translations and read its commentary.

1. 1 أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant (- the army of Abrahah, the viceroy of the Negus, king of Abyssînia, at Yeman)?
2. 2 أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ Did He not (cause the war to end in confusion and) ruin their plan (to destroy Ka`bah by making it revert on themselves)?
3. 3 وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ And He sent against them flocks of birds,
4. 4 تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ (Which tore off flesh from their bodies to eat by) striking them against stones of hardened and petrified clay.
5. 5 فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ And thus He reduced them to rotten chaff (and in a similar way will they be ruined who would ever make an attack to destroy Ka`bah).