Surah Al-Fil
الفيل
The Elephant
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Pronunciation
Bismillāhir-Raḥmānir-Raḥīm
Translation
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Word by Word
بِسْمِ
In the name
اللَّهِ
of Allah
الرَّحْمَٰنِ
the Most Gracious
الرَّحِيمِ
the Most Merciful
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ
Pronunciation
Alam tara kaifa fa‘ala rabbuka bi-aṣḥābil fīl
Translation
Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
Word by Word
أَلَمْ
Have not
تَرَ
You seen
كَيْفَ
How
فَعَلَ
He dealt / did
رَبُّكَ
Your Lord
بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ
Companions of the Elephant
أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
Pronunciation
Alam yaj‘al kaidahum fī taḍlīl
Translation
Did He not make their plot go astray?
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أَلَمْ
Have not
يَجْعَلْ
Make
كَيْدَهُمْ
Their plan/plot
فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
In ruin / astray
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
Pronunciation
Wa arsal ‘alaihim ṭairan abābīl
Translation
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
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وَأَرْسَلَ
And He sent
عَلَيْهِمْ
Upon them
طَيْرًا
Birds
أَبَابِيلَ
In flocks
تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Pronunciation
Tarmīhim bi-ḥijāratim min sijjīl
Translation
Striking them with stones of baked clay.
Word by Word
تَرْمِيهِمْ
Throwing at them
بِحِجَارَةٍ
With stones
مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Of baked clay
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Pronunciation
Fa-ja‘alahum ka-‘aṣfim ma’kūl
Translation
And He made them like eaten-up straw.
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فَجَعَلَهُمْ
So He made them
كَعَصْفٍ
Like straw
مَّأْكُولٍ
Eaten-up / devoured