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105. Al-Fil

الفيلThe Elephant · 5 verses

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Noon, meem and ghunnah

Madd (lengthening)

Qalqalah

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَبِ لْفِلِ﴿١﴾

Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant

أَلَمْ يَعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِلٍ﴿٢﴾

Did He not bring their stratagem to naught

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِلَ﴿٣﴾

And send against them swarms of flying creatures

تَرْمِيهِحِجَارَةجِّلٍ﴿٤﴾

Which pelted them with stones of baked clay

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفأْكُلٍۭ﴿٥﴾

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)

Arabic text: Tanzil Qur'an Text (Uthmani), copyright © 2007–2026 Tanzil Project, used unaltered, tanzil.net. Tajweed positions: quran-tajweed by Collin Fair, CC BY 4.0. English: Marmaduke Pickthall (1930).