أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلۡفِيلِ﴿1﴾
Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant
Surah 105 · Makki
The Elephant · 5 ayat
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أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَيۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلۡفِيلِ﴿1﴾
Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant
أَلَمۡ يَجۡعَلۡ كَيۡدَهُمۡ فِي تَضۡلِيلٖ﴿2﴾
Did He not make their plan into misguidance
وَأَرۡسَلَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ طَيۡرًا أَبَابِيلَ﴿3﴾
And He sent against them birds in flocks
تَرۡمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٖ مِّن سِجِّيلٖ﴿4﴾
Striking them with stones of hard clay
فَجَعَلَهُمۡ كَعَصۡفٖ مَّأۡكُولِۭ﴿5﴾
And He made them like eaten straw
Saheeh International by Umm Muhammad. Arabic text sourced from The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia. Dataset Quran JSON v3.1.2, CC-BY-SA-4.0.