Surah 105 · 5 verses · 23 words
Surah Al-Fil word by word: meaning and pronunciation
Al-Fil, “The Elephant”, recalls the people of the elephant, the army that came to destroy the Ka‘bah, and how Allah stopped them.
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سُورَةُ الْفِيل
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ ١
1. Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the elephant?
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ ٢
2. Did He not bring their plan to ruin?
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣
3. And He sent against them birds in flocks,
تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ ٤
4. striking them with stones of baked clay,
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ ٥
5. and He made them like eaten-up straw.
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