AL-FĪL[]
The Elephant[]
الفيل[]
Meccan (surah 105 • 5 ayahs)[]
»The surah that tells of the destruction of the armed force that came to be known as the company of THE ELEPHANT, after the animal they intended to use to destroy the Kaʿbah, in the generation before the advent of Islam. This surah is a reference to events that happened in 570 CE, the year of the Prophet Muḥammads birth. It takes its name from “the elephant” (al-fīl) mentioned in verse 2, which refers to the force dispatched by Abrahah (a Christian ruler of Yemen) to Mecca, that is “the men of the elephant” (aṣḥāb al-fīl). The destruction of this army is cited here to encourage the believers and warn the disbelievers.«
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِBI-SMI LLĀHI R-RAḤMĀNI R-RAḤĪMI1القرآن:أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِTRANSLITERATION:ʾa-lam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-ʾaṣḥābi l-fīliTRANSLATION:Have you not regarded how your Lorddealt with the Men of the Elephant?2القرآن:أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍTRANSLITERATION:ʾa-lam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlinTRANSLATION:Did He not make their stratagems go awry,3القرآن:وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَTRANSLITERATION:wa-ʾarsala ʿalayhim ṭayran ʾabābīlaTRANSLATION:and send against them flocks of birds4القرآن:تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍTRANSLITERATION:tarmīhim bi-ḥijāratin min sijjīlinTRANSLATION:pelting them with stones of shale,5 القرآن:فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَأْكُولٍTRANSLITERATION:fa-jaʿalahum ka-ʿaṣfin maʾkūlinTRANSLATION:thus making them like chewed-up straw?