105. Surah Al-Feel (The Elephant)

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

1

YUSUFALI : Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?

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

SHAKIR : Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?

M& HILALI : Have you (O Muhammad ()) not seen how your Lord dealt with the Owners of the Elephant? [The elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka'bah at Makkah].

2

YUSUFALI : Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?

PICKTHAL : Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,

SHAKIR : Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,

M& HILALI : Did He not make their plot go astray?

3

YUSUFALI : And He sent against them Flights of Birds,

PICKTHAL : And send against them swarms of flying creatures,

SHAKIR : And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,

M& HILALI : And sent against them birds, in flocks,

4

YUSUFALI : Striking them with stones of baked clay.

PICKTHAL : Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

SHAKIR : Casting against them stones of baked clay,

M& HILALI : Striking them with stones of Sijjil.

5

YUSUFALI : Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

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

SHAKIR : So He rendered them like straw eaten up?

M& HILALI : And made them like an empty field of stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).