AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA
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In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
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YUSUFALI:
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the
Elephant?
PICKTHAL:
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the
Elephant?
SHAKIR:
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the
possessors of the elephant?
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YUSUFALI:
Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
PICKTHAL:
Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
SHAKIR:
Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
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YUSUFALI:
And He sent against them Flights of Birds,
PICKTHAL:
And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
SHAKIR:
And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
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YUSUFALI:
Striking them with stones of baked clay.
PICKTHAL:
Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
SHAKIR:
Casting against them stones of baked clay,
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YUSUFALI:
Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw,
(of which the corn) has been eaten up.
PICKTHAL:
And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?
SHAKIR:
So He rendered them like straw eaten up?