الفيل

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ١

Alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābi l-fīli

Do you [Prophet] not see how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant?

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍ ٢

Alam yajʿal kaydahum fī taḍlīlin

Did He not utterly confound their plans?

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣

Wa-arsala ʿalayhim ṭayran abābīla

He sent ranks of birds against them,

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٤

Tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

Pelting them with pellets of hard-baked clay:

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ٥

Fajaʿalahum kaʿaṣfin makūlin

He made them [like] cropped stubble.