Surah Al-Fil

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. 105:1 ▶

   أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ﴿١﴾

   alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi'aṣḥābi l-fīl

   Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

   i.e., the army under the command of Abrahah al-Ashram which was accompanied by a huge elephant and came with the intention of destroying the Kaʿbah at Makkah.

2. 105:2 ▶

   أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ﴿٢﴾

   alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīl

   Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

   Causing them to perish.

3. 105:3 ▶

   وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿٣﴾

   wa'arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran 'abābīl

   And He sent against them birds in flocks,

4. 105:4 ▶

   تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ﴿٤﴾

   tarmīhim biḥijāratim min sijjīl

   Striking them with stones of hard clay,

5. 105:5 ▶

   فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴿٥﴾

   fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfim ma'kūl

   And He made them like eaten straw.

   i.e., husks which have been chewed by cattle. This event took place in the year of the Prophet's birth.

In the transliteration, “|”: the reciter stops; “·”: sakt, a brief cut without taking a breath.