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Surah Al-Fil (الفيل) — “The Elephant” — is a Meccan chapter with 5 verses. Read the full Arabic text with translation, transliteration and audio on Al-Qalam.

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Al-Fil

الفيل

The Elephant · 5 verses · Meccan

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli

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

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ

alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

Striking them with stones of hard clay,

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin

And He made them like eaten straw.