Surah Al-Fīl (The Elephant) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بأصحاب الفيل

   1

   Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephants?

   ʾa-lam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-ʾaṣḥābi l-fīli

2. ألم يجعل كيدهم في تضليل

   2

   Did He not make their stratagems go awry,

   ʾa-lam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

3. وأرسل عليهم طيرا أبابيل

   3

   and send against them flocks of birds

   wa-ʾarsala ʿalayhim ṭayran ʾabābīla

4. ترميهم بحجارة من سجيل

   4

   pelting them with stones of shale,

   tarmīhim bi-ḥijāratin min sijjīlin

5. فجعلهم كعصف مأكول

   5

   thus making them like chewed-up straw?

   fa-jaʿalahum ka-ʿaṣfin maʾkūlin