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Al-Feel

English Translation - Hilali and Khan

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{بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ}

1. Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? [The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka‘bah at Makkah].

{أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ}

2. Did He not make their plot go astray?

{وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ}

3. And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

{تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ}

4. Striking them with stones of Sijjîl (baked clay).

{فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍ}

5. And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).[2]

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