سورة الفيل
Here is Surah Al-Fil (“The Elephant”) in transliteration: each of its 5 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
Letters with a bar (ā, ī, ū) are long, ʿ marks the letter ʿayn, ḥ, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ the emphatic letters. Hover over or tap an Arabic word to see its meaning.
Tajweed rules
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ١
alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli
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
alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin
2. Did He not make their plan into misguidance?1993
[1993] Causing them to perish.
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣
wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla
3. And He sent against them birds in flocks,
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٤
tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin
4. Striking them with stones of hard clay,
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ٥
fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin
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.
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