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Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan

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105 Al-Fīl ٱلْفِيل

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

105:1 أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
105:1
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan (English) :
Have you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) 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].

105:2 أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
105:2
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan (English) :
Did He not make their plot go astray?

105:3 وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
105:3
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan (English) :
And sent against them birds, in flocks,

105:4 تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
105:4
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan (English) :
Striking them with stones of Sijjil.

105:5 فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
105:5
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan (English) :
And made them like an empty field of stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).