الفيل

105. Al-Fil

The Elephant · Meccan · 5 verses

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Bismi Allāhi ar-raḥmāni ar-raḥīm

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

105:1

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ﴿١﴾

Alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʾaṣḥābi al-fīl

Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?

105:2

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ﴿٢﴾

Alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīl

Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

105:3

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿٣﴾

Waʾarsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīl

And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

105:4

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ﴿٤﴾

Tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīl

Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

105:5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ﴿٥﴾

Fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin maʾkūl

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

Arabic: the Uthmani text of the Tanzil Project, used unchanged under CC BY 3.0. Quran text © Tanzil Project - check tanzil.net/updates for changes.

Transliteration: made by Anoor from the Tanzil text, each word as it is said on its own - in recitation the words run together.

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain.

Plain English: written by Anoor from Tafsir al-Jalalayn (al-Mahalli and al-Suyuti), one of the most widely read classical commentaries. It is a simple explanation, not a scholarly commentary - for a ruling or a deeper reading, ask a scholar. Something wrong? Tell us.