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Information About Surah Al-Fil

Type of Surah Al-Fil: Meccan
Number of verses in Surah Al-Fil: 5
Order of Surah Al-Fil in Quran: 105
Order of revelation: 19
Surah name in English: The Elephant
Page numbers in Quran: page 601
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Translation: Saheeh International
Tafsir: Yusuf Ali

Surah Al-Fil
سُورَةُ الفِيلِ
Page 601 (Verses from 1 to 5)

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ﴿1﴾ أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ﴿2﴾ وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿3﴾ تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ﴿4﴾ فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴿5﴾

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أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ﴿1﴾

English Translation

Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant? (1)

English Transliteration

Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biashabi alfeeli (1)

Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant? (1)

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ﴿2﴾

English Translation

Did He not make their plan into misguidance? (2)

English Transliteration

Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleelin (2)

Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray? (2)

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿3﴾

English Translation

And He sent against them birds in flocks, (3)

English Transliteration

Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeela (3)

And He sent against them Flights of Birds, (3)

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ﴿4﴾

English Translation

Striking them with stones of hard clay, (4)

English Transliteration

Tarmeehim bihijaratin min sijjeelin (4)

Striking them with stones of baked clay. (4)

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴿5﴾

English Translation

And He made them like eaten straw. (5)

English Transliteration

FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin makoolin (5)

Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up. (5)

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