Al-Fil

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. Ayah105:1#Copy

   أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

   (1) Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?[1992]

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   [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.
2. Ayah105:2#Copy

   أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ

   (2) Did He not make their plan into misguidance?[1993]

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   [1993]- Causing them to perish.
3. Ayah105:3#Copy

   وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

   (3) And He sent against them birds in flocks,

4. Ayah105:4#Copy

   تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

   (4) Striking them with stones of hard clay,

5. Ayah105:5#Copy

   فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

   (5) And He made them like eaten straw.[1994]

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   [1994]- i.e., husks which have been chewed by cattle. This event took place in the year of the Prophet's birth.