Surah 105 · verse 1

Al-Fil 105:1

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ

bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim a-lam tara kayfa fa'ala rabbaka bi-ashab al-fil

Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

Saheeh International translation

Context in the surah

Verse 1

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ

Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?

Verse 2

أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ

Did He not make their plan into misguidance?

Verse 3

وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ

And He sent against them birds in flocks,

Verse 4

تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

Striking them with stones of hard clay,