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سورة الفِیل

Surah Al-Fîl 105:4

The Elephant · Verse 4 of 5

تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ

Abdul Mannan Omar

(Which tore off flesh from their bodies to eat by) striking them against stones of hardened and petrified clay.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Striking them with stones of baked clay.

Ahmed Ali

(While) you were pelting them with stones of porphyritic lava,

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Ali Unal

Shooting them with bullet-like stones of baked clay (an emblem of the punishment due to them),

Daryabadi

They hurled upon them stones of baked clay;

Faridul Haque

Which hit them with stones of baked clay,

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Casting at them decreed stones --

Maulvi Sher Ali

Which ate their dead bodies, striking them against stones of clay.

Muhammad Asad

which smote them with stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained,

Muhammad Musin Khan

Striking them with stones of Sijjil.

Muhammad Pickthall

Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

Muhammad Sarwar

which showered them with small pebbles of clay

Muhammed ali Shakir

Casting against them stones of baked clay,

Rashad Khalifa

That showered them with hard stones.

Shabbir Ahmed

Then you showered them with hard stones earmarked with requital.