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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

English Translation - Noor International Center. Version: 1.1.2. Last updated: 2025-06-24. QuranEnc.com

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   أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ

   (1) Have you not considered, [O Muḥammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?^[1992]

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   [1992]- i.e., the army under the command of Abrahah al-Ashram which was accompanied by a huge elephant and came with the intention of destroying the Kaʿbah at Makkah.

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   أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ

   (2) Did He not make their plan into misguidance?^[1993]

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   [1993]- Causing them to perish.

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   وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

   (3) And He sent against them birds in flocks,

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   تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

   (4) Striking them with stones of hard clay,

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   فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ

   (5) And He made them like eaten straw.^[1994]

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   [1994]- i.e., husks which have been chewed by cattle. This event took place in the year of the Prophet's birth.

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