Al-Fil — The Elephant

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Surah Al-Fil (The Elephant, الفيل) is the 105th surah of the Noble Quran — a Meccan surah of 5 verses. Read it below in Arabic with the English translation of Marmaduke Pickthall, and listen verse by verse to famous Egyptian reciters.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

105:1

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ ١

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

105:2

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِى تَضْلِيلٍۢ ٢

Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

105:3

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ٣

And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

105:4

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍۢ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ ٤

Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

105:5

فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ ٥

And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?

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Arabic text: Tanzil Project (tanzil.net) · English translation: M. M. Pickthall · Recitations: mp3quran.net

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