سورة الفيل
The complete Arabic text of Surah Al-Fil: its 5 verses in vowelled Uthmani script, with the English translation under each verse. Enlarge the text with A+, show the transliteration or word by word, and start the recitation: each verse lights up as it is recited.
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ١
1. Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?1992
[1992] 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.
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ٢
2. Did He not make their plan into misguidance?1993
[1993] Causing them to perish.
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣
3. And He sent against them birds in flocks,
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٤
4. Striking them with stones of hard clay,
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ٥
5. And He made them like eaten straw.1994
[1994] i.e., husks which have been chewed by cattle. This event took place in the year of the Prophet's birth.
