Al-Fil

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ١

Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka bi-as-habialfeel

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

Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant?

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ٢

Alam yajAAal kaydahum fee tadleel

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

Has He not turned their plan into nullity?

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ٣

Waarsala AAalayhim tayran ababeel

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

And He sent upon them flying birds in flocks,

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ٤

Tarmeehim bihijaratin minsijjeel

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

throwing upon them stones of baked clay,

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ٥

FajaAAalahum kaAAasfin ma/kool

And He made them like eaten straw.

and thus He turned them into an eaten-up chaff.