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Original Text
Ahmed Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Abul Ala Maududi
Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Raza Khan
A. J. Arberry
Ali Quli Qarai
Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish
Mohammad Habib Shakir
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
Muhammad Sarwar
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
Saheeh International
Talal Itani
Transliteration
Wahiduddin Khan
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
105:1
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
105:1
HAVE YOU NOT seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the elephants? - Ahmed Ali (English)
105:2
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ
105:2
Did He not make their plan go wrong, - Ahmed Ali (English)
105:3
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
105:3
And sent hordes of chargers flying against them, - Ahmed Ali (English)
105:4
تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
105:4
(While) you were pelting them with stones of porphyritic lava, - Ahmed Ali (English)
105:5
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
105:5
And turned them into pastured fields of corn? - Ahmed Ali (English)